- The job controller back-off logic is now decoupled from workqueue. In case of parallelism > 1, if there are multiple new failures in a reconciliation cycle, all the failures are taken into account to compute the back-off. Previously, the back-off kicked in for all types of failures; with this change, only pod failures are taken into account. If the back-off limits exceeds, the job is marked as failed immediately; before this change, the job is marked as failed in the...

- Fixes an issue where StatefulSet might not restart a pod after eviction or node failure. ([#121389](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121389), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska)) [SIG Apps and Testing]
- The scheduling queue didn't notice any extenders' failures, it could miss some cluster events,

* fix azure disk mount failure on coreos and some other distros ([#54334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54334), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix for service controller so that it won't retry on doNotRetry service update failure. ([#54184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54184), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

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d_hash_status_last_timestamp_seconds`, `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reload_failures_total`, `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reload_success_total`, `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reload_last_timestamp_seconds`.
  
  Fixed bug to surface events for the following metrics: `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reload_failures_total`, `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_reload_last_timestamp_seconds`, `apise...

- The scheduling queue didn't notice any extenders' failures, it could miss some cluster events,
  and it could end up Pods rejected by Extenders stuck in unschedulable pod pool in 5min in the worst-case scenario.