- Scheduler bugfix: Scheduler doesn't lose pod information when nodes are quickly recreated. This could happen when nodes are restarted or quickly recreated reusing a nodename. ([#93964](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93964), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

## Known Issues
- volumeDevices mapping ignored when container is privileged

- Failed pods associated with a job with `parallelism = 1` are recreated by the job controller honoring exponential backoff delay again. However, for jobs with `parallelism > 1`, pods might be created without exponential backoff delay. ([#114516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114516), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Scheduler bugfix: Scheduler doesn't lose pod information when nodes are quickly recreated. This could happen when nodes are restarted or quickly recreated reusing a nodename. ([#93938](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93938), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scalability, Scheduling and Testing]

* Ensure orphan public IPs on Azure deleted when service recreated with the same name. ([#70463](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70463), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Fixes an issue that can result in namespaced custom resources being orphaned when their namespace is deleted, if the CRD defining the custom resource is removed concurrently with namespaces being deleted, then recreated. ([#93790](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93790), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]

- 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]

- Number of errors reported to the metric `storage_operation_duration_seconds_count` for emptyDir decreased significantly because previously one error was reported for each projected volume created. ([#117022](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117022), [@mpatlasov](https://github.com/mpatlasov)) [SIG Storage]

  - Certificates created with kubeadm now have improved uniqueness of Distinguished Name fields.
- HA improvements:
  - `kubeadm join --experimental-control-plane` can now be used to join control plane instances to an existing cluster.
  - `kubeadm upgrade node experimental-control-plane` can now be used for upgrading secondary control plane instances created with `kubeadm join --experimental-control-plane`.

* Cluster federation servers have changed the location in etcd where federated services are stored, so existing federated services must be deleted and recreated. Before upgrading, export all federated services from the federation server and delete the services. After upgrading the cluster, recreate the federated services from the exported data. ([#37770](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37770), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))