* Introduced the `ContainersReady` condition in Pod status. ([#64646](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64646), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))

- PodReadinessGate is now turned on by default. ([#67406](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67406), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan)) Courtesy of SIG Node

* Fix Service Update on LoadBalancerSourceRanges Field ([#37720](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37720), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))
* Bug fix. Incoming UDP packets not reach newly deployed services ([#32561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32561), [@zreigz](https://github.com/zreigz))

#### **Other**

*   Pod addresses will now be removed from the list of endpoints when the pod is in graceful termination. ([#54828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54828),[ @freehan](https://github.com/freehan))

- Added readiness gates in extended output for pods ([#70775](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70775), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))
- Added `Ready` column and improve human-readable output of Deployments and StatefulSets ([#70466](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70466), [@Pingan2017](https://github.com/Pingan2017))

* Fix a bug where pod address is not removed from endpoints object while pod is in graceful termination. ([#54828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54828), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))
* fix warning messages due to GetMountRefs func not implemented in windows ([#52401](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52401), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Fix a bug where ExternalTrafficPolicy is not applied to service ExternalIPs. ([#88786](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88786), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan)) [SIG Network]
- Fix a bug where kubenet fails to parse the tc output. ([#83572](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83572), [@chendotjs](https://github.com/chendotjs)) [SIG Network]

* PodReadinessGate feature is now GA. The feature gate will not allow disabling it. ([#74434](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74434), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))

* Fix udp service blackhole problem when number of backends changes from 0 to non-0 ([#48524](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48524), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))
* hpa: Prevent scaling below MinReplicas if desiredReplicas is zero ([#48997](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48997), [@johanneswuerbach](https://github.com/johanneswuerbach))