- DRA drivers: the resource slice controller sometimes didn't react properly when kubelet or someone else deleted a recently created ResourceSlice. It incorrectly assumed that the ResourceSlice still exists and didn't recreate it. ([#132683](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132683), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Apps, Node and Testing]

  - The schema for the alpha `CSINodeInfo` CRD has been split into `spec` and `status` fields, and new fields `status.available` and `status.volumePluginMechanism` added. Clusters using the previous alpha schema must delete and recreate the CRD using the new schema. ([#70515](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70515), [@davidz627](https://github.com/davidz627))

- Kubeadm: apply further improvements to the tentative support for concurrent etcd member join. Fixes a bug where multiple members can receive the same hostname. Increase the etcd client dial timeout and retry timeout for add/remove/... operations. ([#87505](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87505), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* fluentd will tolerate all NoExecute Taints when run in gcp configuration. ([#45715](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45715), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))
* Fix [Deployments with Recreate strategy not waiting for Pod termination](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/27362). ([#45639](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45639), [@ChipmunkV](https://github.com/ChipmunkV))

- Some of the in-tree storage drivers indicate support for the `MetricsProvider` interface, but fail to configure this for BlockMode volumes. With a recent change, `Kubelet` will call `GetMetrics()` for BlockMode volumes, and the in-tree drivers that miss the support cause a Go panic. Now the in-tree storage drivers that support BlockMode volumes, will return the Capacity of the volume in the `GetMetrics()`...

- `kubeadm`: will now allow deploying a kubelet that is 3 versions older than the version of `kubeadm` (N-3). This aligns with the recent change made by SIG Architecture that extends the support skew between the control plane and kubelets. Tolerate this new kubelet skew for the commands `init`, `join` and `upgrade`. Note that if the `kubeadm` user applies a control plane version that...

- The scheduler's assumed pods have 2min instead of 30s to receive nodeName pod updates ([#106632](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106632), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g)) [SIG Scheduling]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed

* fix: make azure disk URI as case insensitive ([#79020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79020), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixed an issue with informers missing an `Added` event if a recently deleted object was immediately recreated at the same time the informer dropped a watch and relisted. ([#83911](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83911), [@matte21](https://github.com/matte21))

meta.k8s.io/v1alpha1 with Table, and contain column and row information related to the resource. Each row will contain information about the resource - by default it will be the object metadata, but callers can add the ?includeObject=Object query parameter and receive the full object. In the future kubectl will use this to retrieve the results of `kubectl get`. ([#40848](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40848), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

* The behavior of some...

- Graduated ServerSideFieldValidation to `beta`. Schema validation is performed server-side and requests will receive warnings for any invalid/unknown fields by default. ([#110178](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110178), [@kevindelgado](https://github.com/kevindelgado)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Auth, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle,...