* The garbage collector now cascades deletion properly when deleting an object with propagationPolicy="background". This resolves issue [#44046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/44046), so that when a deployment is deleted with propagationPolicy="background", the garbage collector ensures dependent pods are deleted as well. ([#44058](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44058), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))...

context is used for timeout and cancellation signaling and to pass supplementary information to round trippers in the wrapped transport chain. If you don't need any of this functionality, it is sufficient to pass a context created with `context.Background()` to these functions. The `(*"k8s.io/client-go/rest".Request).Context` method is removed now that all methods that execute a request accept a context directly. ([#87597](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87597), [@mikedanese](https...

* Inter pod topological affinity and anti-affinity implementation ([#22985](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/22985), [@kevin-wangzefeng](https://github.com/kevin-wangzefeng))
* start etcd compactor in background ([#25010](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25010), [@hongchaodeng](https://github.com/hongchaodeng))

- Add foreground cascading deletion to kubectl with the new `kubectl delete foreground|background|orphan` option. ([#93384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93384), [@zhouya0](https://github.com/zhouya0))