- 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]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- APIs for kubelet annotations and labels from k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/apis are now available under k8s.io/kubelet/pkg/apis/ ([#98931](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98931), [@michaelbeaumont](https://github.com/michaelbeaumont)) [SIG Apps, Auth and Node]

- JobTrackingWithFinalizers graduates to beta. Feature is enabled by default. (#105687, @alculquicondor) [SIG Apps and Testing]
- Remove NodeLease feature gate that was graduated and locked to stable in 1.17 release. (#105222, @cyclinder) [SIG Apps, Node and Testing]
- TTLAfterFinished is now GA and enabled by default (#105219, @sahilvv) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth and Testing]

- 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]

## Changelog since v1.21.0

## What's New (Major Themes)

### Removal of several beta Kubernetes APIs