* Fixed an issue where Portworx volume driver wasn't passing namespace and annotations to the Portworx Create API. ([#59607](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59607), [@harsh-px](https://github.com/harsh-px))

- `kubectl config set-context` can now set attributes of the current context, such as the current namespace, by passing `--current` instead of a specific context name ([#66140](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66140), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

  much later). ([#122757](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122757), [@hakman](https://github.com/hakman)) [SIG Network]
- If a pvc has an empty storageClassName, persistentvolume controller won't try to assign a default StorageClass ([#122704](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122704), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

- Give terminal phase correctly to all pods that will not be restarted. 

  In particular, assign Failed phase to pods which are deleted while pending. Also, assign a terminal 
  phase (Succeeded or Failed, depending on the exit statuses of the pod containers) to pods which
  are deleted while running.
  

* Use inline func to ensure unlock is executed ([#61644](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61644), [@resouer](https://github.com/resouer))

* Fixed an issue where Portworx volume driver wasn't passing namespace and annotations to the Portworx Create API. ([#59607](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59607), [@harsh-px](https://github.com/harsh-px))

- The e2e suite can be instructed not to wait for pods in kube-system to be ready or for all nodes to be ready by passing `--allowed-not-ready-nodes=-1` when invoking the e2e.test program. This allows callers to run subsets of the e2e suite in scenarios other than perfectly healthy clusters. ([#98781](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98781), [@smartercl...

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  - The `kubectl convert` command is deprecated and will be removed in a future release ([#70820](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70820), [@seans3](https://github.com/seans3))

  * [Nodes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/#node-affinity-beta-feature) and [pods](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/#inter-pod-affinity-and-anti-affinity-beta-feature) now support affinity and anti-affinity
  * Advanced scheduling can be performed with [taints and tolerations](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/#taints-and-tolerations-beta-feature)