- Fixed bug where Server Side Apply causes spurious resourceVersion bumps on no-op patches to custom resources. ([#125263](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125263), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]
- Fixed bug where kubectl get with --sort-by flag does not sort strings alphanumerically. ([#124514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124514), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley))

- Fixed error handling in `EnsureAdminClusterRoleBindingImpl`.
   ([#122893](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122893), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))
- Fixed incorrect error logging for `syncCronJob`.
   ([#122493](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122493), [@mengjiao-liu](https://github.com/mengjiao-liu))

- Fixed stale SMB mount issue when SMB file share is deleted and then unmounted. ([#121851](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121851), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Fixed the bug where images that were pinned by the container runtime could be garbage collected by `kubelet`. ([#119986](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119986), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao))

### Bug or Regression

- DRA: fixed several issues related to "allocationMode: all" ([#127565](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127565), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Node]
- Fix bug where PodCIDR was released before node was deleted ([#128305](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128305), [@adrianmoisey](https://github.com/adrianmoisey)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- Fixed a 1.28 regression around restarting init containers in the right order relative to normal containers ([#120440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120440), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node and Testing]