- Fixed a bug in kubelet that will saturate CPU utilization after containerd got restarted. ([#97174](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97174), [@hanlins](https://github.com/hanlins)) [SIG Node]

- Fix kubelet to properly log when a container is started. Previously, kubelet may log that container is dead and was restarted when it was actually started for the first time. This behavior only happened on pods with initContainers and regular containers. ([#91469](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91469), [@rata](https://github.com/rata))...

- Node affinity, Node selectors, and tolerations are now mutable for Jobs that are suspended and have never been started ([#105479](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105479), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g))
- Pod template annotations and labels are now mutable for Jobs that are suspended and have never been started ([#105980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105980), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g))

   * completed, has already been cancelled, or could not be cancelled for some other reason. If
   * successful, and this step has not started when {@code cancel} is called, this step should never
   * run.
   *
   * <p>If successful, causes the objects captured by this step (if already started) and its input
   * step(s) for later closing to be closed on their respective {@link Executor}s. If any such calls

The external cloud provider was established and reached feature parity with in-tree, and we expect to stabilize it and have it as preferred deployment model by 1.13. We are also getting started on externalizing the vSphere volume functionalities in a CSI plugin to fully reproduce the current in-tree storage functionality.

- Fixes a regression introduced in 1.29 where conntrack entries for UDP connections
  to deleted pods did not get cleaned up correctly, which could (among other things)
  cause DNS problems when DNS pods were restarted. ([#127807](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127807), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network]

- A static pod that is rapidly updated was failing to start until the Kubelet was restarted. ([#107900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107900), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

- Added support for `--cpu`, `--memory` flag to `kubectl autoscale`, started deprecating `--cpu-precent`. ([#129373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129373), [@googs1025](https://github.com/googs1025))

* Fix regression in `v1.JobSpec.backoffLimit` that caused failed Jobs to be restarted indefinitely. ([#63650](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63650), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

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