- Fix a bug that `--disabled-metrics` doesn't function well. (#105793, @Huang-Wei) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]
- Fix a panic in kubectl when creating secrets with an improper output type (#106356, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]
- Fix concurrent map access causing panics when logging timed-out API calls. (#106112, @marseel) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fix a bug that `--disabled-metrics` doesn't function well. (#106391, @Huang-Wei) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]
- Fix a panic in kubectl when creating secrets with an improper output type (#106354, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]
- Fix concurrent map access causing panics when logging timed-out API calls. (#106113, @marseel) [SIG API Machinery]
- Fixed very rare volume corruption when a pod is deleted while kubelet is offline.

- Fixed node lifecycle controller panic when conditionType ready is been patch `nil` by mistake. ([#122874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122874), [@fusida](https://github.com/fusida))
- Fixed panic of Evented `PLEG` during kubelet start-up. ([#122475](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122475), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

* GCE: provide an option to disable docker's live-restore on COS/ubuntu ([#55260](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55260), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))
* Fix kube-proxy hang due to panic when requesting a closed healthcheck. ([#46450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46450), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

* [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump version of fluentd-gcp to 2.0.18 to include latest security fixes. ([#67693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67693), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))
* Return apiserver panics as 500 errors instead terminating the apiserver process. ([#68001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68001), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

### Other notable changes

* Fixes kube-proxy bug accessing self nodeip:port on windows ([#83027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83027), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Fixed panic when accessing CustomResources of a CRD with x-kubernetes-int-or-string. ([#83790](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83790), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Fixed provisioning of Cinder volumes migrated to CSI when StorageClass with AllowedTopologies was used. ([#98311](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98311), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Storage]
- Fixes a panic in the disruption budget controller for PDB objects with invalid selectors ([#98777](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98777), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG Apps]

- Fix: GetLabelsForVolume panic issue for azure disk PV ([#92166](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92166), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- K8s.io/component-base/logs: usage of the pflag values in a normal Go flag set led to panics when printing the help message ([#114680](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114680), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Instrumentation]

* Allow kubernetes components to react to SIGTERM signal and shutdown gracefully. ([#57756](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57756), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))
* Fix scheduler cache panic when updating pod conditions. ([#56733](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56733), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))