- Increase timeout for pod lifecycle test to reach pod status=ready ([#96691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96691), [@hh](https://github.com/hh))
- Increased `CSINodeIDMaxLength` from 128 bytes to 192 bytes. ([#98753](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98753), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227))

  termination message log file. The termination message file is now properly
  readable for end users and has a maximum size (4k bytes) to prevent abuse.
  Each pod may have up to 12k bytes of termination messages before the contents
  of each will be truncated.
* Do not delete pod objects until all its compute resource footprint has been
  reclaimed.

* Add per-pod scheduling metrics across 1 or more schedule attempts. ([#83674](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83674), [@liu-cong](https://github.com/liu-cong))
* Fix validation message to mention bytes, not characters. ([#80880](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80880), [@DirectXMan12](https://github.com/DirectXMan12))

- Increased `CSINodeIDMaxLength` from 128 bytes to 192 bytes. Prepare to increase the length limit to 256 bytes in 1.23 release. ([#101256](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101256), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227))

- The maximum length of the `CSINode` id field has increased to 256 bytes to match the CSI spec. ([#104160](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104160), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

- CRI: exposed commit memory bytes in container stats specific to Windows ([#119238](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119238), [@kiashok](https://github.com/kiashok))
- Client-go now exposes two new metrics to monitor the client-go logic that

## Changelog since v1.8.7

### Other notable changes

* Configurable etcd quota backend bytes in GCE ([#59259](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59259), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

* Ensure IP is set for Azure internal load balancer. ([#59083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59083), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Configurable etcd quota backend bytes in GCE ([#59259](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59259), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

* Added configurable etcd quota backend bytes in GCE. ([#59259](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59259), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Fixed graceful apiserver shutdown to not drop outgoing bytes before the process terminates. ([#72970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72970), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

### Apps