- Use force unmount for NFS volumes if regular mount fails after 1 minute timeout ([#96844](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96844), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage]
- Use network.Interface.VirtualMachine.ID to get the binded VM

- Kube-apiserver: regular expressions specified with the `--cors-allowed-origins` option are now validated to match the entire `hostname` inside the `Origin` header of the request and 

* Use separate client for leader election in scheduler to avoid starving leader election by regular scheduler operations. ([#53793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53793), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

  - **apiserver_flowcontrol_priority_level_seat_count_watermarks**: histograms of high and low watermarks of number of seats occupied by executing requests (both regular and final-delay phases included), broken down by priority_level.

- Added a new label `type` to `apiserver_flowcontrol_request_execution_seconds` metric - it has the following values: - 'regular': indicates that it is a non long running request - 'watch': indicates that it is a watch request. ([#105517](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105517), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

- Fixed a bug where the device resources allocated to an init container, with `containerRestartPolicy` of `Always`, were erroneously reused by a regular container. ([#120461](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120461), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42))...