replacement pods is blocked until old pods are definitely not running
    (indicated either by the kubelet returning from partitioned state,
    deletion of the Node object, deletion of the instance in the cloud provider,
    or force deletion of the pod from the api-server).
    This helps prevent "split brain" scenarios in clustered applications by
    ensuring that unreachable pods will not be presumed dead unless some

- Fix detection of SystemOOMs in which the victim is a container. ([#88871](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88871), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG Node]

### API Change

  don't match the node affinity/selector. This may lead to unschedulable pods if you previously had pods
  matching the spreading selector on those excluded nodes (not matching the node affinity/selector),
  especially when the `topologyKey` is not node-level. Revisit the node affinity and/or pod selector in the

### API Change

- EndpointSlices marked for deletion are now ignored during reconciliation. ([#109624](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109624), [@aryan9600](https://github.com/aryan9600))
- Etcd: Update to v3.5.4 ([#110033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110033), [@mk46](https://github.com/mk46)) [SIG API Machinery, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle and Testing]

* AWS: Change default networking for kube-up to kubenet ([#32239](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32239), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* Make sure finalizers prevent deletion on storage that supports graceful deletion ([#32351](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32351), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

      - [kubeadm](#kubeadm-1)
      - [Cloud Provider Support](#cloud-provider-support)
    - [**Cluster Federation**](#cluster-federation)
      - [Placement Policy](#placement-policy)
      - [Cluster Selection](#cluster-selection)
    - [**Instrumentation**](#instrumentation)
      - [Core Metrics API](#core-metrics-api)
    - [**Internationalization**](#internationalization)
    - [**kubectl (CLI)**](#kubectl-cli-1)

- Client-go: Optimized leaders renewing leases by updating leader lock optimistically without getting the record from the API server first. Also, a new metric `leader_election_slowpath_total` was added to allow users to monitor how many leader elections are updated non-optimistically.
   ([#122069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122069), [@linxiulei](https://github.com/linxiulei))

- Updates that remove remaining `metadata.finalizers` from  an object that is pending deletion (non-nil metadata.deletionTimestamp) and has no graceful deletion pending (nil or 0 metadata.deletionGracePeriodSeconds) now results in immediate deletion of the object. ([#77952](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77952), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))