- Fix computing backoff delay when using Job pod failure policy, by including in the backoff delay calculation pod failures ignored from the backoffLimit counter.
  
  Also, compute the backoff delay more accurately for deleted pods. ([#119466](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119466), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps]

  When you enable the `KMSv2KDF` feature gate (off by default), KMS v2 uses a key derivation function to generate single use data encryption keys from a secret seed combined with some random data. This eliminates the need for a counter based nonce while avoiding nonce collision concerns associated with AES-GCM's 12 byte nonce. ([#118828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118828), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

* Add EgressRule to NetworkPolicy ([#51351](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51351), [@cmluciano](https://github.com/cmluciano))
* Allow DNS resolution of service name for COS using containerized mounter.  It fixed the issue with DNS resolution of NFS and Gluster services. ([#51645](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51645), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

- kube-apiserver now reported the following metrics for authorization webhook match conditions: - `apiserver_authorization_match_condition_evaluation_errors_total` counter metric labeled by authorizer type and name - `apiserver_authorization_match_condition_exclusions_total` counter metric labeled by authorizer type and name - `apiserver_authorization_match_condition_evaluation_seconds` histogram metric labeled by authorizer type and name.

- Fixed race condition in GCE between containerized mounter setup in the kubelet. ([#112195](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112195), [@mattcary](https://github.com/mattcary))

- `kubeadm`: fixed `nil` pointer when `etcd` member is already removed. ([#119753](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119753), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- `kubeadm`: fixed the bug where `--image-repository` flag is missing for some init