- "unfinished_work_microseconds" is added to the workqueue metrics; it can be used to detect stuck worker threads. (kube-controller-manager runs many workqueues.) ([#70884](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70884), [@lavalamp](https://github.com/lavalamp))

- Added a `Processing` condition for the `workqueue` API.
  Changed `Shutdown` for the `workqueue` API to wait until the work queue finishes processing all in-flight items. ([#101928](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101928), [@alexanderConstantinescu](https://github.com/alexanderConstantinescu))

- Client-go: improved allocation behavior of the delaying workqueue when handling objects with far-future ready times. ([#83945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83945), [@barkbay](https://github.com/barkbay))

- The job controller back-off logic is now decoupled from workqueue. In case of parallelism > 1, if there are multiple new failures in a reconciliation cycle, all the failures are taken into account to compute the back-off. Previously, the back-off kicked in for all types of failures; with this change, only pod failures...

- Controller manager serve workqueue metrics ([#87967](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87967), [@zhan849](https://github.com/zhan849)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Following metrics have been turned off:
  - kubelet_pod_worker_latency_microseconds

* kube-apiserver: improves performance of requests made with service account token authentication ([#71816](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71816), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Use prometheus conventions for workqueue metrics. ([#71300](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71300), [@danielqsj](https://github.com/danielqsj))
    * It is now deprecated to use the following metrics:
        * `{WorkQueueName}_depth`