- Fixed "kubectl describe statefulsets.apps" printing garbage for rolling update partition ([#85846](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85846), [@phil9909](https://github.com/phil9909)) [SIG CLI]

### Feature

- A new client side metric `rest_client_request_retries_total` has been added that tracks the number of retries sent to the server, partitioned by status code, verb and host ([#108396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108396), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

* Fix a bug that preempting a pod may block forever. ([#65987](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65987), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))
* fix data loss issue if using existing azure disk with partitions in disk mount  ([#63270](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63270), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* Promote kubelet tls bootstrap to beta. Add a non-experimental flag to use it and deprecate the old flag. ([#46799](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46799), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))
* Fix disk partition discovery for brtfs ([#46816](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46816), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
    * Add ZFS support
    * Add overlay2 storage driver support

* Fixed data loss issue if using existing azure disk with partitions in disk mount  ([#63270](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63270), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* Pods that are terminating due to eviction by the nodecontroller (typically due to unresponsive kubelet, or network partition) now surface in `kubectl get` output  ([#36017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36017), [@foxish](https://github.com/foxish))
    * as being in state "Unknown", along with a longer description in `kubectl describe` output.

- Feat: change parittion style to GPT on Windows ([#101412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101412), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage and Windows]

- Finalizer Protection for Service LoadBalancers (S...

* Promote kubelet tls bootstrap to beta. Add a non-experimental flag to use it and deprecate the old flag. ([#46799](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46799), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))
* Fix disk partition discovery for brtfs ([#46816](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46816), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
    * Add ZFS support
    * Add overlay2 storage driver support

- Allowed specifying `ExternalTrafficPolicy` for `Services` with `ExternalIPs`. ([#119150](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119150), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn))
- Changed kubelet logs from `error` to `info` for uncached partitions when using CRI stats provider. ([#100448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100448), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))