- The `ProxyTerminatingEndpoints` feature is now Beta and enabled by default. When enabled, kube-proxy will attempt to route traffic to terminating pods when the traffic policy is `Local` and there are only terminating pods remaining on a node. ([#113363](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113363), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))
- The `goroutines` metric is newly added in the scheduler. 

- A terminating pod on a node that is not caused by preemption no longer prevents `kube-scheduler` from preempting pods on that node

- Fixed panic in Job controller when `podRecreationPolicy: Failed` is used, and the number of terminating pods exceeds parallelism. ([#121147](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121147), [@kannon92](https://github.com/kannon92))

    - Traffic to a service IP now starts getting rejected (as opposed to
      merely dropped) as soon as there are no longer any *usable*
      endpoints, rather than waiting until all of the terminating
      endpoints have terminated even when those terminating endpoints
      were not being used.
  
    - Chains for endpoints that won't be used are no longer output to

* Endpoints, that tolerate unready Pods, are now listing Pods in state Terminating as well ([#37093](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37093), [@simonswine](https://github.com/simonswine))

* Fix race condition introduced by graceful termination which can lead to a deadlock in kube-proxy ([#72361](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72361), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))
* Support graceful termination with IPVS when deleting a service ([#71895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71895), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

- EndpointSlice should not contain endpoints for terminating pods ([#89056](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89056), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG Apps and Network]

* kube-proxy in IPVS mode will stop initiating connections to terminating pods for services with sessionAffinity set. ([#71834](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71834), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

- Fixed a bug that caused a DaemonSet rolling update to hang when its pod gets stuck at terminating.  ([#77773](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77773), [@DaiHao](https://github.com/DaiHao))

- Etcd: Updated to `v3.5.11`. ([#122393](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122393), [@mzaian](https://github.com/mzaian))
- Fixed Pod stuck in `Terminating` because of `GenerateUnmapVolumeFunc` missing `globalUnmapPath` when kubelet tries to clean up all volumes that failed reconstruction. ([#123032](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123032), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))