- Fix a bug that `--disabled-metrics` doesn't function well. (#106391, @Huang-Wei) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]
- Fix a panic in kubectl when creating secrets with an improper output type (#106354, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]
- Fix concurrent map access causing panics when logging timed-out API calls. (#106113, @marseel) [SIG API Machinery]

- Callers of `wait.ExponentialBackoffWithContext` now must pass a `ConditionWithContextFunc` to be consistent with the signature and avoid creating a duplicate context. If your condition does not need a context you can use the `ConditionFunc.WithContext()` helper to ignore the context, or use `ExponentialBackoff` directly. ([#115113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115113), [@...

* Allow kubernetes components to react to SIGTERM signal and shutdown gracefully. ([#57756](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57756), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))
* fix incorrect error info when creating an azure file PVC failed ([#56550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56550), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Fix for volume reconstruction of CSI ephemeral volumes ([#113347](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113347), [@dobsonj](https://github.com/dobsonj)) [SIG Node, Storage and Testing]

- Bug fix in test/e2e/framework  Framework.RecordFlakeIfError ([#111048](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111048), [@alingse](https://github.com/alingse)) [SIG Testing]
- Client-go: fixed an error in the fake client when creating API requests are submitted to subresources like `pods/eviction`. ([#110425](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110425), [@LY-today](https://github.com/LY-today))

- Fix a bug that `--disabled-metrics` doesn't function well. (#105793, @Huang-Wei) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]
- Fix a panic in kubectl when creating secrets with an improper output type (#106356, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]
- Fix concurrent map access causing panics when logging timed-out API calls. (#106112, @marseel) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fix performance issue when creating large objects using SSA with fully unspecified schemas (preserveUnknownFields). ([#111915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111915), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Auth, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster...

- The drop-in kubelet configuration directory feature has been targeted for Beta. ([#122907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122907), [@sohankunkerkar](https://github.com/sohankunkerkar))
- The kubelet now rejects creating the pod if `hostUserns=false` and the CRI runtime does not support user namespaces. ([#123216](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123216), [@giuseppe](https://github.com/giuseppe))

- Fixed a regression in the kubelet's behavior while creating a container when the `EventedPLEG` feature gate is enabled. ([#120942](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120942), [@sairameshv](https://github.com/sairameshv))

- E2e: tests can now register callbacks with `ginkgo.BeforeEach`, `ginkgo.AfterEach` or `ginkgo.DeferCleanup` directly after creating a framework instance and are guaranteed that their code is called after the framework is initialized and before it gets cleaned up. `ginkgo.DeferCleanup` replaces `f.AddAfterEach` and `AddCleanupAction` which got removed to simplify the framework....