- 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 ([#120656](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120656), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]

  In addition, when this feature is enabled, the 'details' field of 'Status' from the LIST response
  includes information that identifies the corrupt object(s).
  NOTE: unsafe deletion ignores finalizer constraints, and skips precondition checks.
  WARNING: this may break the workload associated with the resource being unsafe-deleted, if it relies on

- 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...

- 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]

- Set `PodMaxUnschedulableQDuration` as 5 min. ([#108761](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108761), [@denkensk](https://github.com/denkensk))
- Support in-tree PV deletion protection finalizer. ([#108400](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108400), [@deepakkinni](https://github.com/deepakkinni))

- `metadata.deletionTimestamp` is no longer moved into the future when issuing repeated DELETE requests against a resource containing a finalizer. ([#73138](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73138), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Add garbage collector into kube-controller-manager ([#26341](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26341), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))
* Add orphaning finalizer logic to GC ([#25599](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25599), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

    return toStringHelper(this).add("state", state.get()).addValue(future).toString();
  }

  @SuppressWarnings({"removal", "Finalize"}) // b/260137033
  @Override
  protected void finalize() {
    if (state.get().equals(OPEN)) {
      logger.get().log(SEVERE, "Uh oh! An open ClosingFuture has leaked and will close: {0}", this);
      FluentFuture<V> unused = finishToFuture();

### 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]

    ASSERT_EQ(TF_OK, TF_GetCode(s_)) << TF_Message(s_);
    params->body_outputs[0] = {add2, 0};
    params->body_outputs[1] = params->body_inputs[1];

    // Finalize while loop
    TF_FinishWhile(params.get(), s_, &outputs[0]);
    EXPECT_EQ(TF_OK, TF_GetCode(s_)) << TF_Message(s_);
  }

  // Define function, use it in graph, and run