*   Passes sourcesReady from kubelet to the device plugin to avoid removing inactive pods during the grace period of kubelet restart.
    *   Extends the gpu_device_plugin e2e_node test to verify that scheduled pods can continue to run even after a device plugin deletion and kubelet restart.

- Created a new `kubectl rollout restart` command that does a rolling restart of a deployment. ([#76062](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76062), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))

- Static pods were taking extra time to be restarted after being updated.  Static pods that are waiting to restart were not correctly counted in `kubelet_working_pods`. ([#116995](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116995), [@sma...

- Fixes a regression on Kubelet restart and pod statuses. (#105560, @rphillips) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Fixes kubelet memory regression in 1.22 (#105452, @liggitt) [SIG Node]
- Fixes the kubelet's ability to restart static pods (#105075, @rphillips) [SIG Node and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix pod restart after node reboot when NewVolumeManagerReconstruction feature gate is enabled and SELinuxMountReadWriteOncePod disabled ([#124140](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124140), [@bertinatto](https://github.com/bertinatto)) [SIG Node]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix pod restart after node reboot when NewVolumeManagerReconstruction feature gate is enabled and SELinuxMountReadWriteOncePod disabled ([#124141](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124141), [@bertinatto](https://github.com/bertinatto)) [SIG Node]

New alpha features include:
* Online volume resizing will increase the filesystem size of a resized volume without requiring a Pod restart.
* AWS EBS and GCE PD volumes support increased limits on the maximum number of attached volumes per node.

* Fixes an issue with RBAC reconciliation that could cause duplicated subjects in some bootstrapped rolebindings on each restart of the API server. ([#53239](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53239), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

* fix azure file plugin failure issue on Windows after node restart ([#60625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60625), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* Fix a bug where kubelet would not retry pod sandbox creation when the restart policy of the pod is Never ([#79451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79451), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))