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- From now on, the HPA controller will return an error for the container resource metrics when the feature gate "HPAContainerMetrics" is disabled. As a result, HPA with a container resource metric performs no scale-down and performs only scale-up based on other metrics. ([#116043](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116043), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Autoscaling]

* Fix kubelet PVC stale metrics ([#59170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59170), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))
* Restores the ability of older clients to delete and scale jobs with initContainers ([#59880](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59880), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

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- Fix panic if there are more terminating pods than active pods ([#122267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122267), [@kannon92](https://github.com/kannon92)) [SIG Apps]
- Fix: statle smb mount issue when smb file share is deleted and then unmount ([#121851](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121851), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage]
- Fixed a regression since 1.27.0 in scheduler framework when running score plugins. 

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