- 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))

- Added validation to reject Pods using the `PodLevelResources` feature on Windows OS due to lack of support. The API server rejected Pods with pod-level resources and a `Pod.spec.os.name` targeting Windows. Kubelet on nodes running Windows also rejected Pods with pod-level resources at the admission phase. ([#133046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133046), [@toVersus](https://github.com/toVersus)) [SIG Apps and Node]

    * Logging Agent Improvements
    * Bump logging agent version to 0.2-1.5.33-1-k8s-1.
    * Appropriately set log severity for k8s_container.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze message field instead of log field.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze streams based on local resource id.
    * Disable the metadata agent for monitored resource construction in logging.

* Fix log spam due to unnecessary status update when node is deleted. ([#45923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45923), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

        unlock();
        postWriteCleanup();
      }

      if (createNewEntry) {
        try {
          // Synchronizes on the entry to allow failing fast when a recursive load is
          // detected. This may be circumvented when an entry is copied, but will fail fast most
          // of the time.
          synchronized (e) {
            return loadSync(key, hash, loadingValueReference, loader);
          }

		t.Fatalf("Test %s: Failed to fetch the copied object: <ERROR> %s", instanceType, err)
	}
	r.Close()
	if !bytes.Equal(buf.Bytes(), bytesData[0].byteData) {
		t.Fatalf("Test %s: returned data is not expected corruption detected:", instanceType)
	}

	globalCompressConfigMu.Lock()
	compressEnabled := globalCompressConfig.Enabled
	globalCompressConfigMu.Unlock()
	if compressEnabled && !r.ObjInfo.IsCompressed() {

- The scheduling queue didn't notice any extenders' failures, it could miss some cluster events,
  and it could end up Pods rejected by Extenders stuck in unschedulable pod pool in 5min in the worst-case scenario.
  Now, the scheduling queue notices extenders' failures and requeue Pods rejected by Extenders appropriately. ([#122022](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122022), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling]

- The scheduling queue didn't notice any extenders' failures, it could miss some cluster events,
  and it could end up Pods rejected by Extenders stuck in unschedulable pod pool in 5min in the worst-case scenario.
  Now, the scheduling queue notices extenders' failures and requeue Pods rejected by Extenders appropriately. ([#122044](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122044), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix: statle smb mount issue when smb file share is deleted and then unmount ([#121851](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121851), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage]
- The scheduling queue didn't notice any extenders' failures, it could miss some cluster events,
  and it could end up Pods rejected by Extenders stuck in unschedulable pod pool in 5min in the worst-case scenario.

- Kube-scheduler now retries scheduling Pods rejected by the PodTopologySpread plugin when related Pods are created, deleted, updated,...