- The job controller back-off logic is now decoupled from workqueue. In case of parallelism > 1, if there are multiple new failures in a reconciliation cycle, all the failures are taken into account to compute the back-off. Previously, the back-off kicked in for all types of failures; with this change, only pod failures are taken into account. If the back-off limits exceeds, the job is marked as failed immediately; before this change, the job is marked as failed in the...

- Kube-apiserver adds two new alpha metrics `conversion_webhook_request_total` and `conversion_webhook_duration_seconds` that allow users to monitor requests to CRD conversion webhooks, split by result, and failure_type (In case of failure). ([#118292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118292), [@cchapla](https://github.com/cchapla)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture and Instrumentation]

* fix azure disk mount failure on coreos and some other distros ([#54334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54334), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix for service controller so that it won't retry on doNotRetry service update failure. ([#54184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54184), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

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- Added more accurate requeueing in scheduling queue for Pods rejected by the temporal failure (e.g., temporal failure on `kube-apiserver`). ([#119105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119105), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))

- Extend the job `job_finished_total metric by new `reason` label and introduce a new job metric to count pod failures
  handled by pod failure policy with respect to the action applied. ([#113324](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113324), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps and Testing]