- Fixed two scheduler metrics (pending_pods and schedule_attempts_total) not being recorded ([#87692](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87692), [@everpeace](https://github.com/everpeace)) [SIG Scheduling]
- Fixes an issue with kubelet-reported pod status on deleted/recreated pods. ([#86320](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86320), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Node]

  If the `DeclarativeValidation` feature gate was enabled, mismatches with existing validation are reported via metrics.

- Events reported for container creation, start, and stop now report the container name in the message and are more consistently formatted. ([#73892](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73892), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

- E2e framework: added `--report-complete-ginkgo` and `--report-complete-junit` parameters. They work like `ginkgo --json-report <report dir>/ginkgo/report.json --junit-report <report dir>/ginkgo/report.xml`. ([#115678](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115678), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Testing]

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 pods may take slightly longer (~1s) to report Succeeded or Failed after this change. ([#108366](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108366), [@smarterclay...

- 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]

- Fix the bug that the metrics for the cluster IP allocator are incorrectly reported. ([#110027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110027), [@tksm](https://github.com/tksm)) [SIG Instrumentation]

- Fix etcd_object_counts metric reported by kube-apiserver ([#94773](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94773), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fixes an issue calculating total CPU usage reported for Windows nodes ([#122999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122999), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset)) [SIG Node and Windows]

- QueueingHint implementation for NodeAffinity is reverted because we found potential scenarios where events that make Pods schedulable could be missed. ([#122327](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122327), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling]