- Give terminal phase correctly to all pods that will not be restarted. 

  In particular, assign Failed phase to pods which are deleted while pending. Also, assign a terminal 
  phase (Succeeded or Failed, depending on the exit statuses of the pod containers) to pods which
  are deleted while running.
  
  This fixes the issue for jobs using pod failure policy (with JobPodFailurePolicy and PodDisruptionConditions 

- Fixes add-on manager leader election ([#98968](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98968), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Improved update time of pod statuses following new probe results. ([#98376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98376), [@matthyx](https://github.com/matthyx)) [SIG Node and Testing]

* Added all kinds of resource objects' statuses in HPA description. ([#59609](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59609), [@zhangxiaoyu-zidif](https://github.com/zhangxiaoyu-zidif))

- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105400, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fixes a regression on Kubelet restart and pod statuses. (#105560, @rphillips) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Fixes kubelet memory regression in 1.22 (#105452, @liggitt) [SIG Node]
- Fixes the kubelet's ability to restart static pods (#105075, @rphillips) [SIG Node and Testing]

      rolling forward.
      The status has moved from annotation key
      `pods.beta.kubernetes.io/init-container-statuses` to
      `pods.beta.kubernetes.io/init-container-statuses`.
    * Any code that inspects this annotation should be changed to use the new key.
      State of Initialization will continue to be reported in both pods.alpha.kubernetes.io/initialized