- Fixed the issue where pod with ordinal number lower than the rolling partitioning number was being deleted it was coming up with updated image. ([#120731](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120731), [@adilGhaffarDev](https://github.com/adilGhaffarDev)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Fix validation for Job with suspend=true, and completions=0 to set the Complete condition. ([#132727](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132727), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Replaced deprecated package `k8s.io/utils/pointer` with `k8s.io/utils/ptr` for pkg/apis (2/2). ([#132779](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132779), [@PatrickLaabs](https://github.com/PatrickLaabs)) [SIG Apps, Auth and Storage]

- Statefulset should wait for new replicas in tests when removing .start.ordinal ([#119761](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119761), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Added support for configuring custom stop signals with a new StopSignal container lifecycle ([#130556](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130556), [@sreeram-venkitesh](https://github.com/sreeram-venkitesh)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Node and Testing]

- StatefulSet pods now have the pod index set as a pod label `apps.kubernetes.io/pod-index`. ([#119232](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119232), [@danielvegamyhre](https://github.com/danielvegamyhre)) [SIG Apps]

- Added a `.status.features.supplementalGroupsPolicy` field to Nodes. The field is true when the feature is implemented in the CRI implementation (KEP-3619). ([#125470](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125470), [@everpeace](https://github.com/everpeace)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Node and Testing]

 * libraries offer better ways to decouple components and react to events.
 *
 * <p>To decouple components, we recommend a dependency-injection framework. For Android code, most
 * apps use <a href="https://dagger.dev">Dagger</a>. For server code, common options include <a
 * href="https://github.com/google/guice/wiki/Motivation">Guice</a> and <a

- Fixes calculating the requeue time in the cronjob controller, which results in properly handling failed/stuck jobs ([#121540](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121540), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG Apps]

### SIG Apps

[SIG Apps][] focuses on the Kubernetes APIs and the external tools that are required to deploy and operate Kubernetes workloads.