- [`KT-42589`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-42589) Provide common listOf(value) overload to avoid allocation of the vararg
- [`KT-55091`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-55091) Stdlib: Sequence.toSet() and Sequence.toList() may create the collection twice

* Finalizers are now honored on custom resources, and on other resources even when garbage collection is disabled via the apiserver flag `--enable-garbage-collector=false` ([#51148](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51148), [@ironcladlou](https://github.com/ironcladlou))

  // +optional
  map<string, k8s.io.apimachinery.pkg.api.resource.Quantity> hard = 1;

  // A collection of filters that must match each object tracked by a quota.
  // If not specified, the quota matches all objects.
  // +optional
  repeated string scopes = 2;

  // scopeSelector is also a collection of filters like scopes that must match each object tracked by a quota

- 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]

    * In this way, the whole container streaming connection is secure. To switch back to the old behavior, set `--redirect...

#### Garbage Collector
* The garbage collector now supports custom APIs added via Custom Resource Definitions
  or aggregated API servers. The garbage collector controller refreshes periodically.
  Therefore, expect a latency of about 30 seconds between when an API is added and when
  the garbage collector starts to manage it.


#### Monitoring/Prometheus

* Allow kubernetes components to react to SIGTERM signal and shutdown gracefully. ([#57756](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57756), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

other clouds.  Please point your clusters to the new registry going forward. \n\nAdmission/Policy integrations that have an allowlist of registries need to include `registry.k8s.io` alongside `k8s.gcr.io`.\nAir-gapped environments and image garbage-collection configurations will need to update to pre-pull and preserve required images under `registry.k8s.io` as well as `k8s.gcr.io`. ([#109938](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109938), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

## Changes...

- Fixed SELinux relabeling of CSI volumes after CSI driver failure. ([#103154](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103154), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Node and Storage]
- 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))

- Kubelet: add `kubelet_volume_metric_collection_duration_seconds` metrics for volume disk usage calculation duration ([#107201](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107201), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))