- Promoted the feature gate `AnyVolumeDataSource` to GA. ([#129770](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129770), [@sunnylovestiramisu](https://github.com/sunnylovestiramisu)) [SIG Apps, Storage and Testing]
- Removed general available feature gate `CPUManager`. ([#129296](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129296), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG API Machinery, Node and Testing]

* AWS cloudprovider plugin: Fix for large clusters (200+ nodes). Also fix bug with volumes not getting detached from a node after reboot. ([#48312](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48312), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
* Fix Pods using Portworx volumes getting stuck in ContainerCreating phase. ([#48898](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48898), [@harsh-px](https://github.com/harsh-px))

    * `kubectl delete node/<nodeName>`
    * or grant self-deletion permission explicitly:
        * `kubectl create clusterrole self-deleting-nodes --verb=delete --resource=nodes`
        * `kubectl create clusterrolebinding self-deleting-nodes --clusterrole=self-deleting-nodes --group=system:nodes`

    * or grant self-deletion permission explicitly:
        * `kubectl create clusterrole self-deleting-nodes --verb=delete --resource=nodes`
        * `kubectl create clusterrolebinding self-deleting-nodes --clusterrole=self-deleting-nodes --group=system:nodes`

- When client certificate files are provided, reload files for new connections, and close connections when a certificate changes. ([#79083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79083), [@jackkleeman](https://github.com/jackkleeman)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Node and Testing]

*   Problems deleting local static pods have been resolved. ([#48339](https://github.com/kubern...

- Promote PodHostIPs condition to beta. ([#120257](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120257), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Network, Node and Testing]
- Promote PodHostIPs condition to beta. ([#121477](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121477), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Network and Testing]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Added a new filed `Step` in the testing framework to allow volume expansion in configurable step sizes for tests. ([#134760](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134760), [@Rishita-Golla](https://github.com/Rishita-Golla)) [SIG Storage and Testing]

- Support pod priority based node graceful shutdown (#102915, @wzshiming) [SIG Node and Testing]

### Feature

- CRI v1 is now the project default. If a container runtime does not support the v1 API, Kubernetes will fall back to the v1alpha2 implementation. (#106501, @ehashman) [SIG Network, Node and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))
* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))