### 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]

- 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 ([#120655](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120655), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]

- Finalizer Protection for Service LoadBalancers is now in beta (enabled by default). This feature ensures the Service resource is not fully deleted until the correlating load balancer resources are deleted. ([#81691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81691),...

    implements FinalizableReference {
  /**
   * Constructs a new finalizable weak reference.
   *
   * @param referent to weakly reference
   * @param queue that should finalize the referent
   */
  protected FinalizableWeakReference(@Nullable T referent, FinalizableReferenceQueue queue) {
    super(referent, queue.queue);
    queue.cleanUp();
  }

    implements FinalizableReference {
  /**
   * Constructs a new finalizable weak reference.
   *
   * @param referent to weakly reference
   * @param queue that should finalize the referent
   */
  protected FinalizableWeakReference(@Nullable T referent, FinalizableReferenceQueue queue) {
    super(referent, queue.queue);
    queue.cleanUp();
  }

    implements FinalizableReference {
  /**
   * Constructs a new finalizable soft reference.
   *
   * @param referent to softly reference
   * @param queue that should finalize the referent
   */
  protected FinalizableSoftReference(@Nullable T referent, FinalizableReferenceQueue queue) {
    super(referent, queue.queue);
    queue.cleanUp();
  }

    write(out, data, 0, 100, true);
    File file = out.getFile();
    assertEquals(100, file.length());
    assertTrue(file.exists());
    out.close();

    // Make sure that finalize deletes the file
    out = null;

    // times out and throws RuntimeException on failure
    GcFinalization.awaitDone(
        new GcFinalization.FinalizationPredicate() {
          @Override

- Volume snapshot e2e test to validate PVC and VolumeSnapshotContent finalizer ([#95863](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95863), [@RaunakShah](https://github.com/RaunakShah)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Storage and Testing]

* Add support for adding/removing finalizer depending on PVC protection feature gate ([#61370](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61370), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

                    throw new DictionaryException("Failed to write: " + item, e);
                }
            }
            return null;
        }

        /**
         * Closes the updater and finalizes the file update operation.
         * If changes were committed, the temporary file replaces the original.
         * Otherwise, the temporary file is deleted.
         */
        @Override
        public void close() {