- Client-go: resolves an issue with informers falling back to full list requests when timeouts are encountered, rather than re-establishing a watch. ([#89976](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89976), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Fixed a race condition on API server startup ensuring previously created webhook configurations are effective before the first write request is admitted. ([#95783](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95783), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG API Machinery]

# Always check-out / check-in files with LF line endings.
* text=auto eol=lf

hack/verify-flags/known-flags.txt merge=union
test/test_owners.csv merge=union

**/zz_generated.*.go linguist-generated=true
**/types.generated.go linguist-generated=true
**/generated.pb.go linguist-generated=true
**/generated.proto
**/types_swagger_doc_generated.go linguist-generated=true
api/openapi-spec/*.json linguist-generated=true

- Fixed a race condition on API server startup ensuring previously created webhook configurations are effective before the first write request is admitted. ([#95783](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95783), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Track Job completion through status and Pod finalizers, removing dependency on Pod tombstones. ([#98238](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98238), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth and Testing]

- Fixed a race condition on API server startup ensuring previously created webhook configurations are effective before the first write request is admitted. ([#95783](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95783), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG API Machinery]

* Add support for Azure Container Registry, update Azure dependencies ([#37783](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37783), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))
* Fixes an issue where `hack/local-up-cluster.sh` would fail on the API server start with ([#38898](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38898), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

- Added a new Priority and Fairness metric `apiserver_flowcontrol_request_dispatch_no_accommodation_total` to track the number of times a request dispatch attempt results in a no-accommodation status due to lack of available seats. ([#106629](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106629), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

### Bug or Regression

- Client-go: resolves an issue with informers falling back to full list requests when timeouts are encountered, rather than re-establishing a watch. ([#89977](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89977), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]