- Added metrics for volume reconstruction during kubelet startup. ([#115965](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115965), [@jsafran...

  // +optional
  optional NamespaceSpec spec = 2;

  // Status describes the current status of a Namespace.
  // More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#spec-and-status
  // +optional
  optional NamespaceStatus status = 3;
}

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kubelet`:

  * `api-servers` - add apiserver addresses to the kubeconfig file instead.

  Don't use these flags. Using deprecated flags causes the kubelet to print a warning. Using a removed flag causes the kubelet to abort the startup.

- Kubelet: Fixed a startup crash in devicemanager. ([#113021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113021), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips))
- Kubelet: fixed log spam from kubelet_getters.go `Path does not exist`. ([#112650](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112650), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips))

INFO:     Uvicorn running on http://127.0.0.1:8000 (Press CTRL+C to quit)
INFO:     Started reloader process [2248755] using WatchFiles
INFO:     Started server process [2248757]
INFO:     Waiting for application startup.
INFO:     Application startup complete.
```

### Refactors

- Fixed issue where there was no response or error from kubectl rollout status when there were no resources of specified kind. ([#117884](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117884), [@gxwilkerson33](https://github.com/gxwilkerson33)) [SIG CLI]

- `kubelet` now emits a metric for end-to-end pod startup latency, including image pull. ([#121041](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121041), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao))
- `kubelet` now exposes latency metrics of different stages of the node startup. ([#118568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118568), [@qiutongs](https://github.com/qiutongs))

- Fixed bug which caused the status of Indexed Jobs to only be updated when there are newly completed indexes. The completed indexes are now updated if the .status.completedIndexes has values outside of the [0, .spec.completions> range ([#115460](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115460), [@danielvegamyhre](https://github.com/danielvegamyhre))...

- Pod status updates faster when reacting on probe results. The first readiness probe will be called faster when startup probes succeeded, which will make Pod status as ready faster. ([#98376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98376), [@matthyx](https://github.com/matthyx))

- Removed the error message label from the `kubelet_started_pods_errors_total` metric ([#105213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105213), [@yxxhero](https://github.com/yxxhero))