- Terminated Pods on a node will not be re-admitted on kubelet restart. This fixes the problem of Completed Pods awaiting for the finalizer marked as Failed after the kubelet restart. ([#127209](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127209), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Node and Testing]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- Static pods were taking extra time to be restarted after being updated.  Static pods that are waiting to restart were not correctly counted in `kubelet_working_pods`. ([#116995](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116995), [@sma...

- Created a new `kubectl rollout restart` command that does a rolling restart of a deployment. ([#76062](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76062), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))

- Terminated Pods on a node will not be re-admitted on kubelet restart. This fixes the problem of Completed Pods awaiting for the finalizer marked as Failed after the kubelet restart. ([#127210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127210), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Node and Testing]

## Dependencies

    *   Passes sourcesReady from kubelet to the device plugin to avoid removing inactive pods during the grace period of kubelet restart.
    *   Extends the gpu_device_plugin e2e_node test to verify that scheduled pods can continue to run even after a device plugin deletion and kubelet restart.

// scheduling guarantees, and they will not be restarted when they exit or when a Pod is
// removed or restarted. The kubelet may evict a Pod if an ephemeral container causes the
// Pod to exceed its resource allocation.
//
// To add an ephemeral container, use the ephemeralcontainers subresource of an existing
// Pod. Ephemeral containers may not be removed or restarted.
message EphemeralContainer {

  * Fix pods failing to start if they specify a file as a volume subPath to mount. ([#45623](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45623), [@wongma7](https://github.com/wongma7))

- Terminated Pods on a node will not be re-admitted on kubelet restart. This fixes the problem of Completed Pods awaiting for the finalizer marked as Failed after the kubelet restart. ([#127207](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127207), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Fixes a regression on Kubelet restart and pod statuses. (#105560, @rphillips) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Fixes kubelet memory regression in 1.22 (#105452, @liggitt) [SIG Node]
- Fixes the kubelet's ability to restart static pods (#105075, @rphillips) [SIG Node and Testing]

* Fix a bug where kubelet would not retry pod sandbox creation when the restart policy of the pod is Never ([#79451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79451), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))