- Fixes a bug where Services using finalizers may hold onto ClusterIP and/or NodePort allocated resources for longer than expected if the finalizer is removed using the status subresource ([#120657](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120657), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]

* Fixes potential deadlock when deleting CustomResourceDefinition for custom resources with finalizers ([#60542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60542), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Fix for [failure to delete federation controllers with finalizers](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/43828). ([#44084](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44084), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))

}

// NamespaceSpec describes the attributes on a Namespace.
message NamespaceSpec {
  // Finalizers is an opaque list of values that must be empty to permanently remove object from storage.
  // More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/namespaces/
  // +optional
  // +listType=atomic
  repeated string finalizers = 1;
}

// NamespaceStatus is information about the current status of a Namespace.

### Bug or Regression

- Fix Job tracking with finalizers for more than 500 pods, ensuring all finalizers are removed before counting the Pod. ([#104876](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104876), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps]

		svctest.SetExternalTrafficPolicy(api.ServiceExternalTrafficPolicyLocal),
		func(s *api.Service) {
			s.Finalizers = []string{"example.com/test"}
		})

	ctx := genericapirequest.NewDefaultContext()

	// Create it with finalizer.
	obj, err := storage.Create(ctx, svc, rest.ValidateAllObjectFunc, &metav1.CreateOptions{})
	if err != nil {

* When a namespace is being deleted and spec.finalizers are still being processed, stop returning a 409 conflict error and instead return the object as we would during metadata.finalizer processing. ([#84122](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84122), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

- Only declare Job as finished after removing all Pod finalizers to avoid orphan Pods ([#119160](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119160), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

* Fixed potential deadlock when deleting CustomResourceDefinition for custom resources with finalizers. ([#60542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60542), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Improved the efficiency of NodeAdded QueueingHint...