- Panics while calling validating admission webhook are caught and honor the fail open or fail closed setting. ([#108746](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108746), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k)) [SIG API Machinery]

- `framework.ExpectNoError` no longer logs the error and instead relies on using the new `log.Fail` as gomega fail handler. ([#80253](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80253), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

### Windows

                Integer fail1 = SmbTransportPoolImpl.this.failCounts.get(o1.getHostAddress());
                Integer fail2 = SmbTransportPoolImpl.this.failCounts.get(o2.getHostAddress());
                if ( fail1 == null ) {
                    fail1 = 0;
                }
                if ( fail2 == null ) {
                    fail2 = 0;
                }

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- The `pod_scheduling_duration_seconds` metrics won't consider the time when a pod fails `PreEnqueue` (like being gated). ([#118049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118049), [@helayoty](https://github.com/helayoty))
- The kube-proxy `sync_proxy_rules_iptables_total` metric has now reverted back

- Specifying PluginConfig for the same plugin more than once fails scheduler startup.
  
  Specifying extenders and configuring .ignoredResources for the NodeResourcesFit plugin fails ([#88870](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88870), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

## Known Issues

	// An untyped nil does not need a pointer check, and when
	// _cgoCheckPointer returns the untyped nil the type assertion we
	// are going to insert will fail.  Easier to just skip nil arguments.
	// TODO: Note that this fails if nil is shadowed.
	if id, ok := arg.(*ast.Ident); ok && id.Name == "nil" {
		return false
	}

	return p.hasPointer(f, t, true)
}

    - [CSI Service Account Token](#csi-service-account-token)
    - [CSI Health Monitoring](#csi-health-monitoring)
  - [Known Issues](#known-issues)
    - [<code>TopologyAwareHints</code> feature falls back to default behavior](#topologyawarehints-feature-falls-back-to-default-behavior)
  - [Urgent Upgrade Notes](#urgent-upgrade-notes)
    - [(No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)](#no-really-you-must-read-this-before-you-upgrade)

* FIX: The OpenStack cloud providers DeleteRoute method fails to delete routes when it can’t find the corresponding instance in OpenStack. ([#62729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62729), [@databus23](https://github.com/databus23))