- Static pods will be deleted gracefully. ([#98103](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98103), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node]
- Sync node status during kubelet node shutdown.
  Adds an pod admission handler that rejects new pods when the node is in progress of shutting down. ([#98005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98005), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]

- Added `auditAnnotations` to `ValidatingAdmissionPolicy`, enabling CEL to be used to add audit annotations to request audit events.
  Added `validationActions` to `ValidatingAdmissionPolicyBinding`, enabling validation failures to be handled by any combination of the warn, audit and deny enforcement actions. ([#115973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115973), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

* GCE: Bump GLBC version to [0.9.7](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress/releases/tag/0.9.7). ([#53625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53625), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))
* kubeadm 1.8 now properly handles upgrades from to 1.7.x to newer release in 1.7 branch ([#53338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53338), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))

- Kube-proxy handles Terminating EndpointSlices conditions and enables zero downtime deployments for Services with ExternalTrafficPolicy=Local author: @andrewsykim ([#117718](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117718), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG...

- Fix a race in the timeout handler that could lead to kube-apiserver crashes ([#108455](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108455), [@Argh4k](https://github.com/Argh4k))

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fix an ephemeral port exhaustion bug caused by improper connection management that occurred when a large number of objects were handled by kubectl while exec auth was in use. ([#112339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112339), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]

- Fixes an issue affecting log rotation with CRI runtimes where kubelet tries to compress Windows logs before closing file handles ([#112483](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112483), [@ibabou](https://github.com/ibabou)) [SIG Node and Windows]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix missing delete events on informer re-lists to ensure all delete events are correctly emitted and using the latest known object state, so that all event handlers and stores always reflect the actual apiserver state as best as possible ([#115900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115900), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Updated an audit annotation key used by the `…/serviceaccounts/<name>/token` resource handler.

  previous releases. When this happens, a `LifecycleHTTPFallback` event is recorded
  in the namespace of the pod and a `kubelet_lifecycle_handler_http_fallbacks_total`
  metric in the kubelet is incremented. Cluster administrators can opt out of the
  expanded lifecycle handler capabilities by setting
  `--feature-gates=ConsistentHTTPGetHandlers=false` in `kubelet`.'