- 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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- Introduced PodHasNetwork condition for pods. ([#111358](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111358), [@ddebroy](https://github.com/ddebroy))
- Introduced support for handling pod failures with respect to the configured pod failure policy rules. ([#111113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111113), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))

- CEL validation failure returns object type instead of object. ([#107090](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107090), [@cici37](https://github.com/cici37)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Call NodeExpand on all nodes in case of RWX volumes ([#108693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108693), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Apps, Node and Storage]

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