* StatefulSet: The deprecated `pod.alpha.kubernetes.io/initialized` annotation for interrupting the StatefulSet Pod management is now ignored. StatefulSets with this annotation set to `true` or with no value will behave just as they did in previous versions. Dormant StatefulSets with the annotation set to `false` will become active after upgrading.

- Fixed computing backoff delay when using Job pod failure policy, by including in the backoff delay calculation pod failures ignored from the backoffLimit counter. ([#119434](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119434), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))

* fix incorrect prometheus azure metrics ([#77722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77722), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixed a bug in the apiserver storage that could cause just-added finalizers to be ignored on an immediately following delete request, leading to premature deletion. ([#77619](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77619), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

## Known Issues
- volumeDevices mapping ignored when container is privileged

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# Vagrant
.vagrant
network_closure.sh

# Local cluster env variables
/cluster/env.sh

# Compiled binaries in third_party
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# Also ignore etcd installed by hack/install-etcd.sh
/third_party/etcd*
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# User cluster configs
.kubeconfig

.tags*

# Version file for dockerized build

### Feature

- AWS cloudprovider will ignore provisioning load balancers if the annotation service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-type is external or nlb-ip ([#97973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97973), [@kishorj](https://github.com/kishorj)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* New kubeadm flag `--ignore-preflight-errors` that enables to decrease severity of each individual error to warning. ([#56072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56072), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))
    * Old flag `--skip-preflight-checks` is marked as deprecated and acts as `--ignore-preflight-errors=all`

    * If your config files contains fields with wrong case, the config files will be now invalid.
* GCE: Fixes operation polling to adhere to the specified interval. Furthermore, operation errors are now returned instead of ignored. ([#64630](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64630), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

- Fix winkernel kube-proxy to only use dual stack when host and networking supports it (#101047, @jsturtevant) [SIG Network and Windows]
- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105402, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: ignore the case when updating Azure tags (#104686, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]