(<code>e</code> or <code>E</code> followed by an optional sign and decimal digits).
One of the integer part or the fractional part may be elided; one of the decimal point
or the exponent part may be elided.
An exponent value exp scales the mantissa (integer and fractional part) by 10<sup>exp</sup>.
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- Fixes error handling...

  The same problem could happen with custom plugins which have Pod/Add or Pod/Update in EventsToRegister,
  which is also solved with this PR, but only when the feature flag SchedulerQueueingHints is enabled. ([#122627](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122627), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

### Introducing Graceful Node Shutdown (Alpha)

### CSI Health Monitoring

- `data_key_generation_latencies_microseconds` -> `data_key_generation_latencies_seconds`

## Notable Features

- Increased the histogram resolution of the API server client certificate  to accommodate short-lived (< 6h) client certificates. ([#74806](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74806), [@mxinden](https://github.com/mxinden))

* Resolves issue with /readyz and /livez not including etcd and kms health checks ([#82713](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82713), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

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link

// lipsy : Lipsy Ltd
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lipsy

// live : Dog Beach, LLC
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live

// living : Internet Naming Company LLC
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living

// llc : Identity Digital Limited

rapidly scheduled after other pods were reported as complete in the API. The Kubelet now waits to report the phase of a pod as terminal in the API until all running containers are guaranteed to have stopped and no new containers can be started.  Short-lived pods may take slightly longer (~1s) to report Succeeded or Failed after this change. ([#108723](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108723), [@bobbypage](https://github.com/bobbypage)) [SIG Apps, Node and Testing]

## Dependencies...

- A new flag, `--keepalive`, has been introduced, for kubectl proxy to allow setting keep-alive period for long-running request. ([#63793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63793), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))