*   Termination grace period for the calico/node add-on DaemonSet has been eliminated, reducing downtime during a rolling upgrade or deletion. ([#55015](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55015),[ @fasaxc](https://github.com/fasaxc))

  fix: ensure InstanceShutdownByProviderID return false for creating Azure VMs ([#104447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104447), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fixed occasional pod cgroup freeze when using cgroup v1 and systemd driver.

* Pods that are marked for deletion and have exceeded their grace period, but are not yet deleted, no longer count toward the resource quota.([#46542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46542))


#### Dynamic Admission Control

- When deleting objects using kubectl with the --force flag, you are no longer required to also specify --grace-period=0. ([#87776](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87776), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley)) [SIG CLI]

- Fixed restricted debug profile. ([#117543](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117543), [@mochizuki875](https://github.com/mochizuki875))
- Fixed the `preStop` hook. This will now block the pod termination grace period. ([#115835](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115835), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi))

* fluentd-gcp grace termination period increased to 60s. ([#65084](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65084), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))

    reuse pod names (they use generate-name).
  * User-written controllers that reuse names of pod objects should evaluate this change.
  * When deleting an object with `kubectl delete ... --grace-period=0`, the client will
    begin a graceful deletion and wait until the resource is fully deleted.  To force
    deletion immediately, use the `--force` flag. This prevents users from accidentally

  Fixed skip `not found` nodes when reconciling LB backend address pools ([#105188](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105188), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))
- Fixed occasional pod cgroup freeze when using cgroup v1 and systemd driver. ([#104528](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104528), [@kolyshkin](https://github.com/kolyshkin))

  fix: ensure InstanceShutdownByProviderID return false for creating Azure VMs ([#104446](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104446), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fixed occasional pod cgroup freeze when using cgroup v1 and systemd driver. ([#104529](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104529), [@kolyshkin](https://github.com/kolyshkin)) [SIG Node]

- Service account tokens bound to pods can now be used during the pod deletion grace period. ([#89583](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89583), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Auth]