- Fixed an issue where a CSI migrated volume may be prematurely detached when the CSI driver is not running on the node.
  If CSI migration is enabled on the node, even the csi-driver is not up and ready, we will still add this volume to DSW. ([#115464](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115464), [@sunnylovestiramisu](https://github.com/sunnylovestiramisu))

* StatefulSets now include an alpha scaling feature accessible by setting the `spec.podManagementPolicy` field to `Parallel`.  The controller will not wait for pods to be ready before adding the other pods, and will replace deleted pods as needed.  Since parallel scaling creates pods out of order, you cannot depend on predictable membership changes within your set. ([#44899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44899),...

- When initializing nodes using external cloud-providers, the process now waits for the providerID value to be available before declaring the node ready. This ensures that nodes are not marked as Ready prematurely due to communication errors with the cloud-provider. The providerID and zone labels are necessary for integrations such as load balancers to function correctly. Users can choose to opt out of this behavior by setting...

  When the `PDBUnhealthyPodEvictionPolicy` feature-gate is enabled in `kube-apiserver`,
  setting this field to `"AlwaysAllow"` allows pods to be evicted if they do not
  have a ready condition, regardless of whether the PodDisruptionBudget is currently
  healthy.'
   ([#113375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113375), [@atiratree](https://github.com/atiratree))

- Fixed the API comments for the Job `Ready` field in status. ([#121765](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121765), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))