- A static pod that is rapidly updated was failing to start until the Kubelet was restarted. ([#107900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107900), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

- Fix endpoints status out-of-sync when the pod state changes rapidly ([#125675](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125675), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]

- Fix endpoints status out-of-sync when the pod state changes rapidly ([#125675](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125675), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]

- Fix endpoints status out-of-sync when the pod state changes rapidly ([#125675](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125675), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]

* StatefulSet: Fix to fully preserve restart and termination order when StatefulSet is rapidly scaled up and down. ([#45113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45113), [@kow3ns](https://github.com/kow3ns))

- NONE ([#97167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97167), [@geegeea](https://github.com/geegeea)) [SIG Node]
- NetworkPolicy validation framework optimizations for rapidly verifying CNI's work correctly across several pods and namespaces ([#91592](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91592), [@jayunit100](https://github.com/jayunit100)) [SIG Network, Storage and Testing]

- Fixed a regression that could incorrectly reject pods with OutOfCpu errors if they were 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...

## Changelog since v1.22.8

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

  your DRA Pods could be affected by this bug. ([#125645](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125645), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling]
- Fix endpoints status out-of-sync when the pod state changes rapidly ([#125675](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125675), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]

failures and now perform a more rigorous reconciliation to ensure static pods (especially those that use fixed UIDs) are restarted.  As a side effect of these changes static pods will be restarted with lower latency than before (2s vs 4s, on average) and rapid updates to pod configuration should take effect sooner.
  
  A new metric `kubelet_known_pods` has been added at ALPHA stability to report the number of pods a Kubelet is tracking in a number of internal states.  Operators may use the metrics...