- Sync node status during kubelet node shutdown.
  Adds an pod admission handler that rejects new pods when the node is in progress of shutting down. ([#98005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98005), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]

- [`KT-53939`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-53939) Partial linkage: with turning object into class link*Native and js*Test tasks fail
- [`KT-53938`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-53938) Partial linkage: with turning interface into class and using as second parent Native build fails
- [`KT-53941`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-53941) Partial linkage: with turning class into object accessing member via parameterless constructor does not fail

### Instrumentation

In v1.9 we focused on improving stability of the components owned by the SIG, including Heapster, Custom Metrics API adapters for Prometheus, and Stackdriver.

    * ServiceDelimiter string Delimiter to use to separate overridden services (multiple services) Defaults to "&"
    * ServicenameDelimiter string Delimiter to use to separate servicename from its configuration parameters Defaults "|"
    * OverrideSeparator string Delimiter to use to separate region of occurrence, url and signing region for each override Defaults to ","

- The Daemonset controller creates replacements for terminal Pods, which can appear during VM preemptions or when using Pod finalizers. ([#118716](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118716), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))

- Kubeadm: during "upgrade apply/diff/node", in case the `ClusterConfiguration.imageRepository` stored in the "kubeadm-config" `ConfigMap` contains the legacy "k8s.gcr.io" repository, modify it to the new default "registry.k8s.io". Reflect the change in the in-cluster `ConfigMap` only during "upgrade apply". ([#110343](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110343), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))...

- Kubeadm: fix a bug where file copy(backup) could not be executed correctly on Windows platform during upgrade ([#117861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117861), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Fixed a bug where vSphere client connections where not being closed during testing. Leaked vSphere client sessions were causing resource exhaustion during automated testing. ([#107337](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107337), [@derek-pryor](https://github.com/derek-pryor))

  Don't use these flags. Using deprecated flags causes the server to print a warning. Using a removed flag causes the server to abort the startup.

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kubelet`:

  * `api-servers` - add apiserver addresses to the kubeconfig file instead.

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