* Action required: validation rule on metadata.initializers.pending[x].name is tightened. The initializer name needs to contain at least three segments separated by dots. If you create objects with pending initializers, (i.e., not relying on apiserver adding pending initializers according to initializerconfiguration), you need to update the initializer name in existing objects and in configuration files to comply...

  phase (Succeeded or Failed, depending on the exit statuses of the pod containers) to pods which
  are deleted while running.
  
  This fixes the issue for jobs using pod failure policy (with JobPodFailurePolicy and PodDisruptionConditions 
  feature gates enabled) that their pods could get stuck in the pending phase when deleted.
  

* Reload systemd config files before starting kubelet. ([#65702](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65702), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))
* Fixes an issue where Portworx PVCs remain in pending state when created using a StorageClass with empty parameters ([#64895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64895), [@harsh-px](https://github.com/harsh-px))

enabled.([#51436](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51436))

* [Action required] The validation rule for metadata.initializers.pending[x].name is tightened. The initializer name must contain at least three segments, separated by dots. You can create objects with pending initializers and not rely on the API server to add pending initializers according to `initializerConfiguration`. If you do so, update the initializer name in the existing objects and the configuration files to...

supports using Azure network resources (Virtual Network, Load Balancer, Public IP, Route Table, Network Security Group, etc.) in different AAD Tenant and Subscription than those for the Kubernetes cluster. To use the feature, please reference https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/cloud-provider-azure/install/configs/#host-network-resources-in-different-aad-tenant-and-subscription. ([#88384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88384), [@bowen5](https://github.com/bowen5)) [SIG Cloud Provider]...

* Improve efficiency of preemption logic in clusters with many pending pods. ([#72895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72895), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

Azure network resources (Virtual Network, Load Balancer, Public IP, Route Table, Network Security Group, etc.) in different AAD Tenant and Subscription than those for the Kubernetes cluster. To use the feature, please reference https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-azure/blob/master/docs/cloud-provider-config.md/#host-network-resources-in-different-aad-tenant-and-subscription. ([#88384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88384), [@bowen5](https://github.com/bowen5)) [SIG Cloud...

- Graduating `pending_pods`, `preemption_attempts_total`, `preemption_victims` and `schedule_attempts_total` metrics to stable. Also `e2e_scheduling_duration_seconds` is renamed to `scheduling_attempt_duration_seconds` and the latter is graduated to stable. ([#105941]...

- Pods that are known to the kubelet to have previously been Running should not revert to Pending state, the kubelet will now infer a termination. ([#102821](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102821), [@ehashman](https://github.com/ehashman))

- Add SourceVolumeMode field to VolumeSnapshotContents. Documentation for this alpha feature is pending. ([#665](https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/pull/665), [@RaunakShah](https://github.com/RaunakShah))
- Update snapshotter module to v6 and client module to v5. Documentation for this alpha feature is pending. ([#670],(https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/pull/670), [@RaunakShah](https://github.com/RaunakShah))