- Failed pods associated with a job with `parallelism = 1` are recreated by the job controller honoring exponential backoff delay again. However, for jobs with `parallelism > 1`, pods might be created without exponential backoff delay. ([#115022](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115022), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita)) [SIG...

- Promote  job-related metrics to stable to follow IndexedJobs GA, the following metrics had their name updated to match metrics API guidelines:
  - job_sync_total -> job_syncs_total
  - job_finished_total -> jobs_finished_total ([#113010](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113010), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG Apps and Instrumentation]