- Pod SecurityContext sysctls name parameter for update requests where the existing object's sysctl contains slashes and kubelet sysctl whitelist support contains slashes. ([#102393](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102393), [@mengjiao-liu](https://github.com/mengjiao-liu)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Node, Storage and Testing]

* Allow kubectl to set image|env on a cronjob ([#57742](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57742), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

* Fixed crash in kubectl cp when path has multiple leading slashes. ([#58144](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58144), [@tomerf](https://github.com/tomerf))

* apiserver: fixes handling and logging of panics in REST handlers to prevent crashes ([#71076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* apiserver: fixes handling and logging of panics in REST handlers to prevent crashes ([#71076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- The topology manager aligns resources for pods of all QoS classes with respect to NUMA locality, not just Guaranteed QoS pods. ([#83492](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83492), [@ConnorDoyle](https://github.com/ConnorDoyle))

- Fixed a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126644](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126644), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

* Restores the ability of older clients to delete and scale jobs with initContainers ([#59880](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59880), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Fix race causing apiserver crashes during etcd healthchecking ([#60069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60069), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

* Use a more reliable way to get total physical memory on windows nodes ([#57124](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57124), [@JiangtianLi](https://github.com/JiangtianLi))
* Fix race causing apiserver crashes during etcd healthchecking ([#60069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60069), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

* Pod disruption budgets shouldn't be checked for terminal pods while evicting ([#68892](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68892), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla))
* Fix scheduler crashes when Prioritize Map function returns error. ([#68563](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68563), [@DylanBLE](https://github.com/DylanBLE))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126691), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]