### Bug or Regression

- An issue preventing the daemonset controller to retry on status updates that failed because of conflicts is now fixed. ([#107639](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107639), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG Apps]

**CVSS Rating:** High (7.2) [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Retry NodeStageVolume calls if CSI node driver is not running ([#120330](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120330), [@rohitssingh](https://github.com/rohitssingh)) [SIG Apps, Storage and Testing]

### Feature

## Changelog since v1.8.5

### Other notable changes

* change default azure file/dir mode to 0755 ([#56551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56551), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

**CVSS Rating:** High (7.2) [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H](https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Retry NodeStageVolume calls if CSI node driver is not running ([#120330](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120330), [@rohitssingh](https://github.com/rohitssingh)) [SIG Apps, Storage and Testing]

### Feature

- Introduce a new server run option 'shutdown-send-retry-after'. If true the HTTP Server will continue listening until all non longrunning request(s) in flight have been drained, during this window all incoming requests will be rejected with a status code `429` and a 'Retry-After' response header. ([#101257](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101257), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

- Kubeadm: support retry mechanism for removing container in reset phase ([#110837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110837), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]
- Kubelet: added log for volume metric collection taking too long ([#107490](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107490), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

### Etcd v3.5.[0-2] data corruption

- Allow KUBE_TEST_REPO_LIST to be a remote url ([#108429](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108429), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))
- Client-go: if resetting the body fails before a retry, an error is now surfaced to the user. ([#109050](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109050), [@MadhavJivrajani](https://github.com/MadhavJivrajani))

- Kube-scheduler implemented scheduling hints for the `NodeResourceFit` plugin. The scheduling hints allowed the scheduler to only retry scheduling a Pod that had been previously rejected by...

  The scheduler will use the record to honor cluster events and queueing `hints registered` for the plugin, to inform whether to retry the pod. ([#119785](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119785), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))