* Fix kubernetes-master charm starting services before TLS certs are saved

    * Fix kubernetes-worker charm failures in LXD

    * Fix stop hook failure on kubernetes-worker charm

    * Fix handling of juju kubernetes-worker.restart-needed state

    * Fix nagios checks in charms

- Added support for configuring custom stop signals with a new StopSignal container lifecycle ([#130556](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130556), [@sreeram-venkitesh](https://github.com/sreeram-venkitesh)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Node and Testing]

* Implement graceful shutdown of the kube-apiserver by waiting for open connections to finish before exiting. Moreover, the audit backend will stop dropping events on shutdown. ([#53695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53695), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))

  If the annotation is present and the user attempts to remove it, the control plane adds it back.
  The annotation `batch.kubernetes.io/job-tracking` is now deprecated.
  The control plane will ignore it and stop adding it for new Jobs in v1.27.' ([#113510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113510), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))
- 'Kubelet added the following Pod failure conditions:

- Stop using wmic on Windows to get uuid in the kubelet ([#126012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126012), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset)) [SIG Node and Windows]

## Dependencies

### Added

- Device manager: stop using annotations to pass CDI device info to runtimes. Containerd versions older than v1.7.2 don't support passing CDI info through CRI and need to be upgraded. ([#126435](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126435), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))...

  (The feature became GA in 1.23 and the gate was removed for all other
  components several releases ago.) If you were still manually
  enabling it you must stop now.' ([#116255](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116255), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))
- Give terminal phase correctly to all pods that will not be restarted. 

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- Kubelet did not report `kubelet_volume_stats_*` metrics for Generic...

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