- Fixed the issue where pod with ordinal number lower than the rolling partitioning number was being deleted it was coming up with updated image. ([#120731](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120731), [@adilGhaffarDev](https://github.com/adilGhaffarDev)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Fixed garbage collection of dangling VolumeAttachments for PersistentVolumes migrated to CSI on startup of kube-controller-manager. ([#102176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102176), [@timebertt](https://github.com/timebertt)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

- Fixed the issue where pod with ordinal number lower than the rolling partitioning number was being deleted it was coming up with updated image. ([#120731](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120731), [@adilGhaffarDev](https://github.com/adilGhaffarDev)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Fixed garbage collection of dangling VolumeAttachments for PersistentVolumes migrated to CSI on startup of kube-controller-manager. ([#102176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102176), [@timebertt](https://github.com/timebertt)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

### Deprecation

#### kube-apiserver:
- the following deprecated APIs can no longer be served:
  - All resources under `apps/v1beta1` and `apps/v1beta2` - use `apps/v1` instead
  - `daemonsets`, `deployments`, `replicasets` resources under `extensions/v1beta1` - use `apps/v1` instead
  - `networkpolicies` resources under `extensions/v1beta1` - use `networking.k8s.io/v1` instead

- Removed the `DownwardAPIHugePages` feature gate (the feature is stable and always enabled) ([#120249](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120249), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Apps and Node]

- Fixes calculating the requeue time in the cronjob controller, which results in properly handling failed/stuck jobs ([#121540](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121540), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG Apps]

* ⬆ Bump pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish from 1.8.11 to 1.8.14. PR [#11318](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/11318) by [@dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot).
* ⬆ Bump pillow from 10.1.0 to 10.2.0. PR [#11011](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/11011) by [@dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot).

- JobTrackingWithFinalizers graduates to beta. Feature is enabled by default. (#105687, @alculquicondor) [SIG Apps and Testing]
- Remove NodeLease feature gate that was graduated and locked to stable in 1.17 release. (#105222, @cyclinder) [SIG Apps, Node and Testing]
- TTLAfterFinished is now GA and enabled by default (#105219, @sahilvv) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth and Testing]

- If someone had the ProbeTerminationGracePeriod alpha feature enabled in 1.21, they should update/delete any workloads/pods with probe terminationGracePeriods < 1 before upgrading ([#103245](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103245), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Apps and Node]
- Introducing Memory QoS support with cgroups v2 (Alpha)