Karen Brems, Karl Lattimer, @kborer, Ken Shirriff, Kevin Rose, Larissa Laich,
Laurent Mazare, Leonard Lee, Liang-Chi Hsieh, Liangliang He, Luke Iwanski, Marek
Kolodziej, Moustafa Alzantot, @MrQianjinsi, @nagachika, Neil Han, Nick Meehan,
Niels Ole Salscheider, Nikhil Mishra, @nschuc, Ondrej Skopek, OndřEj Filip,
@OscarDPan, Pablo Moyano, Przemyslaw Tredak, @qitaishui, @Quarazy, @raix852,

#### **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))

* 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]

- 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 ExternalTrafficPolicy is not applied to service ExternalIPs. ([#90537](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90537), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan)) [SIG Network]
- Fix a condition when expiring nil VM entry in VMSS cache ([#92681](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92681), [@ArchangelSDY](https://github.com/ArchangelSDY)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* 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))