- Suspend Job feature graduated to beta. Added the `action` label to Job controller sync metrics `job_sync_total` and `job_sync_duration_seconds`. ([#102022](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102022), [@adtac](https://github.com/adtac))

- Support for gRPC probes is now in beta. GRPCContainerProbe feature gate is enabled by default. ([#108522](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108522), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev))
- Suspend job to GA. The feature gate `SuspendJob` is locked and will be removed in 1.26. ([#108129](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108129), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g))

- Fix a bug causing unexpected delay of creating pods for newly created jobs ([#132159](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132159), [@linxiulei](https://github.com/linxiulei)) [SIG Apps and Testing]
- Fix validation for Job with suspend=true, and completions=0 to set the Complete condition. ([#132727](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132727), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Introduced the alpha `MutableSchedulingDirectivesForSuspendedJobs` feature gate (disabled by default), which allows mutating a Job's scheduling directives while the Job is suspended. 
  It also updates the Job controller to clears the `status.startTime` field for suspended Jobs. ([#135104](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135104), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Node affinity, Node selectors, and tolerations are now mutable for Jobs that are suspended and have never been started ([#105479](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105479), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g))
- Pod template annotations and labels are now mutable for Jobs that are suspended and have never been started ([#105980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105980), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g))

- .status.terminating field now gets tracked faster when active Pods are deleted, specifically when Job is failed, gets suspended or has too many active pods. ([#125175](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125175), [@dejanzele](https://github.com/dejanzele)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Performance improvements in `klog` ([#115277](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115277), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))
- Pod template `schedulingGates` are now mutable for Jobs that are suspended and have never been started ([#115940](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115940), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g)) [SIG Apps]

- HPA reaction to metric changes has been spend up by removing the scale up forbidden window. ([#66615](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66615), [@jbartosik](https://github.com/jbartosik))

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