// - Honor: nodes without taints, along with tainted nodes for which the incoming pod
  // has a toleration, are included.
  // - Ignore: node taints are ignored. All nodes are included.
  //
  // If this value is nil, the behavior is equivalent to the Ignore policy.
  // This is a beta-level feature default enabled by the NodeInclusionPolicyInPodTopologySpread feature flag.
  // +optional

* StatefulSet: The deprecated `pod.alpha.kubernetes.io/initialized` annotation for interrupting the StatefulSet Pod management is now ignored. StatefulSets with this annotation set to `true` or with no value will behave just as they did in previous versions. Dormant StatefulSets with the annotation set to `false` will become active after upgrading.

### **Other notable changes**

#### Admission plugin
* OwnerReferencesPermissionEnforcement admission plugin ignores pods/status. ([#45747](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45747), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))


* Ignored mirror pods in PodPreset admission plugin. ([#45958](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45958), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

* New kubeadm flag `--ignore-preflight-errors` that enables to decrease severity of each individual error to warning. ([#56072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56072), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))
    * Old flag `--skip-preflight-checks` is marked as deprecated and acts as `--ignore-preflight-errors=all`

- The `StructuredAuthenticationConfiguration` feature is now beta and enabled. ([#123719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123719), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))
- The `kube_codegen` tool now ignores the vendor folder during code generation.
   ([#122729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122729), [@jparrill](https://github.com/jparrill))

- Fix winkernel kube-proxy to only use dual stack when host and networking supports it (#101047, @jsturtevant) [SIG Network and Windows]
- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105402, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: ignore the case when updating Azure tags (#104686, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- [`KT-65665`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-65665) Analysis API: support `KtDelegatedSuperTypeEntry` in `KtFirExpressionInfoProvider.isUsedAsExpression`
- [`KT-62899`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-62899) K2 IDE. IDE ignores `@Suppress` annotation for errors
- [`KT-65655`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-65655) Analysis API: `KtCodeCompilationException` should not strongly reference FIR sessions

    * If your config files contains fields with wrong case, the config files will be now invalid.
* GCE: Fixes operation polling to adhere to the specified interval. Furthermore, operation errors are now returned instead of ignored. ([#64630](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64630), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

- `kubeadm`: turned on feature gate `MergeCLIArgumentsWithConfig` to merge the config from flag and config file, otherwise, if the flag `--ignore-preflight-errors` is set from the CLI, then the value from config file will be ignored. ([#119946](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119946), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave))

* Fixed a bug in the apiserver storage that could cause just-added finalizers to be ignored on an immediately following delete request, leading to premature deletion. ([#77619](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77619), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))