#### **Audit**

*   Fixed a bug so that `kube-apiserver` now waits for open connections to finish before exiting. This fix provides graceful shutdown and ensures that the audit backend no longer drops events on shutdown. ([#53695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53695),[ @hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))

## Changelog since v1.10.9

### Other notable changes

* Do not remove shutdown nodes from api-server for vSphere. ([#70291](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70291), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
    * Fixes volume detach from shutdown nodes.

- Kubelet Graceful Node Shutdown feature graduates to Beta and enabled by default. ([#99735](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99735), [@bobbypage](https://github.com/bobbypage))

### SIG OpenStack

- Openstack now supports the node shutdown taint. The taint is added when an instance is shutdown in openstack. ([#67982](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67982), [@zetaab](https://github.com/zetaab))

### SIG Scheduling

  the change pods which use RestartPolicy=Always may end up in the Succeeded phase in two scenarios: pod 
  deletion and graceful node shutdown. ([#115331](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115331), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Node and Testing]

* advanced audit: shutdown batching audit webhook gracefully ([#50577](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50577), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))
* Add Priority admission controller for monitoring and resolving PriorityClasses. ([#49322](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49322), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

- Fix /readyz to return error immediately after a shutdown is initiated, before the --shutdown-delay-duration has elapsed. ([#88911](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88911), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Moved `non-graceful node` shutdown to GA. ([#118228](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118228), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

* Do not remove shutdown nodes from api-server for vSphere. ([#70291](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70291), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
    * Fixes volume detach from shutdown nodes.

- Fix /readyz to return error immediately after a shutdown is initiated, before the --shutdown-delay-duration has elapsed. ([#88953](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88953), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]