- Kube-scheduler now retries scheduling Pods rejected by the PodTopologySpread plugin when related Pods are created, deleted, updated, or when a node matches the specified topologyKey. ([#122195](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122195), [@nayihz](https://github.com/nayihz))

- Finalizer Protection for Service LoadBalancers (ServiceLoadBalancerFinalizer) has been added as an Alpha feature, which is disabled by default. This feature ensures the Service resource is not fully deleted until the correlating load balancer resources are deleted. ([#78262](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78262), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

- EndpointSlice IP validation now matches Endpoints IP validation. ([#101084](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101084), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]
- Ensure service deleted when the Azure resource group has been deleted ([#100944](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100944), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* Updating apiserver to return UID of the deleted resource. Clients can use this UID to verify that the resource was deleted or waiting for finalizers. ([#45600](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45600), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))

	if !cc.t.disableCompression() &&
		req.Header.Get("Accept-Encoding") == "" &&
		req.Header.Get("Range") == "" &&
		!cs.isHead {
		// Request gzip only, not deflate. Deflate is ambiguous and
		// not as universally supported anyway.
		// See: https://zlib.net/zlib_faq.html#faq39
		//
		// Note that we don't request this for HEAD requests,
		// due to a bug in nginx:

* Scheduler skips pods that use a PVC that either does not exist or is being deleted. ([#55957](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55957), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* Fixed a garbage collection race condition where objects with ownerRefs pointing to cluster-scoped objects could be deleted incorrectly. ([#57211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57211), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

	// +optional
	Action string `json:"action,omitempty" protobuf:"bytes,12,opt,name=action"`

	// Optional secondary object for more complex actions.
	// +optional
	Related *ObjectReference `json:"related,omitempty" protobuf:"bytes,13,opt,name=related"`

	// Name of the controller that emitted this Event, e.g. `kubernetes.io/kubelet`.
	// +optional

						SchemaProps: spec.SchemaProps{

* fixes a memory leak in the kube-controller-manager observed when large numbers of pods with tolerations are created/deleted ([#65339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65339), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

  // object in the same namespace as this pod.
  //
  // The template will be used to create a new ResourceClaim, which will
  // be bound to this pod. When this pod is deleted, the ResourceClaim
  // will also be deleted. The pod name and resource name, along with a
  // generated component, will be used to form a unique name for the
  // ResourceClaim, which will be recorded in pod.status.resourceClaimStatuses.
  //