the March Hare and his friends shared their never-ending meal,
and the shrill voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate
guests to execution--once more the pig-baby was sneezing on the
Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it--once
more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's
slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs,
filled the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable
Mock Turtle.

- Fixes kubelet crash in client certificate rotation cases ([#88079](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88079), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Node]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126693), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

- The Kubelet's `--really-crash-for-testing` and  `--chaos-chance` options are now marked as deprecated. ([#90499](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90499), [@knabben](https://github.com/knabben)) [SIG Node]

- The EndpointSlice controller now waits for EndpointSlice and Node caches to be synced before starting. ([#94086](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94086), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]