* Action required: validation rule on metadata.initializers.pending[x].name is tightened. The initializer name needs to contain at least three segments separated by dots. If you create objects with pending initializers, (i.e., not relying on apiserver adding pending initializers according to initializerconfiguration), you need to update the initializer name in existing objects and in configuration files to comply...

  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 
  feature gates enabled) that their pods could get stuck in the pending phase when deleted.
  

* Reload systemd config files before starting kubelet. ([#65702](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65702), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))
* Fixes an issue where Portworx PVCs remain in pending state when created using a StorageClass with empty parameters ([#64895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64895), [@harsh-px](https://github.com/harsh-px))

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* [Action required] The validation rule for metadata.initializers.pending[x].name is tightened. The initializer name must contain at least three segments, separated by dots. You can create objects with pending initializers and not rely on the API server to add pending initializers according to `initializerConfiguration`. If you do so, update the initializer name in the existing objects and the configuration files to...

- Fixed two scheduler metrics (pending_pods and schedule_attempts_total) not being recorded ([#87692](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87692), [@everpeace](https://github.com/everpeace)) [SIG Scheduling]

* Fix public IP not found issues for VMSS nodes ([#80703](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80703), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Resolves a bug that prevented sending a multi-version custom resource to an admission webhook. ([#79495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79495), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

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- Duplicate owner reference entries in create/update/patch requests now get deduplicated by the API server. The client sending the request now receives a warning header in the API response. Clients should stop sending requests with duplicate owner references. The API server may reject such requests as early as 1.24. ([#96185](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96185), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw))...

- Try to send watch bookmarks (if requested) periodically in addition to sending them right before timeout ([#90560](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90560), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery]