- Fixed OpenAPI v3 not being cleaned up after deleting `APIServices`. ([#120108](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120108), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn))

		// request is supported. At the same time, we cannot allow adding
		// two delete markers on top of any object. To avoid this situation,
		// we will sort deletions to execute existing deletion first,
		// then add only one delete marker if requested
		sort.SliceStable(fivs.Versions, func(i, j int) bool {
			return !fivs.Versions[i].Deleted
		})

* Tolerate missing watch permission when deleting a resource ([#65370](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65370), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))
* Prevents a `kubectl delete` hang when deleting controller managed lists ([#65367](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65367), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

* fix azure disk mounter issue ([#52260](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52260), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* GCE: Fix issue deleting internal load balancers when the firewall resource may not exist. ([#53450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53450), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

- Kube-controller-manager: Removed flags  `deleting-pods-qps`, `deleting-pods-burst`, and `register-retry-count`. ([#109612](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109612), [@pandaamanda](https://github.com/pandaamanda))

	cache := store.lock()
	defer store.unlock()

	if !isFromNotification {
		// Check if policy is mapped to any existing user or group. If so, we do not
		// allow deletion of the policy. If the policy is mapped to an STS account,
		// we do allow deletion.
		users := []string{}
		groups := []string{}
		cache.iamUserPolicyMap.Range(func(u string, mp MappedPolicy) bool {
			pset := mp.policySet()

- The `controller.kubernetes.io/pod-deletion-cost` annotation can be set to offer a hint on the cost of deleting a `Pod` compared to other pods belonging to the same ReplicaSet. Pods with lower deletion cost are deleted first. This is an alpha feature. ([#99163](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99163), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g))

  - Don't update capacity if VMSS provisioning state is updating
  - Support allocatable resources overrides via VMSS tags
  - Add missing stable labels in template nodes
  - Proactively set instance status to deleting on node deletions
  
  ### Cluster API
  - Migrate interaction with the API from using internal types to using Unstructured
  - Improve tests to work better with constrained resources
  - Add support for node auto-discovery

- Fixed a regression in default configurations, which enabled PodDisruptionConditions by default, 
  that prevented the control plane's pod garbage collector from deleting pods that contained duplicated field keys (env. variables with repeated keys or container ports). ([#121380](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121380), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Scheduling and Testing]

  In order to perform an unsafe deletion of a corrupt resource, the user must enable the option for the delete
  request. A resource is considered corrupt if it can not be successfully retrieved from the storage due to
  a) transformation error e.g. decryption failure, or b) the object failed to decode. Normal deletion flow is