- A bug was fixed in kubelet where exec probe timeouts were not respected. This may result in unexpected behavior since the default timeout (if not specified) is `1s` which may be too small for some exec probes. Ensure that pods relying on this behavior are updated to correctly handle probe timeouts. See [configure probe](https://docs.k8s.io/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/#configure-probes) section of the documentation for more details.

- Kubeadm: Switched to using the new etcd endpoints introduced in 3.5.11 - /livez (for liveness probe) and /readyz (for readyness and startup probe). With this change it is no longer possible to deploy a custom etcd version older than 3.5.11 with kubeadm 1.31. If so, please upgrade etcd to a supported version. ([#124465](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124465),...

- Terminated Pods on a node will not be re-admitted on kubelet restart. This fixes the problem of Completed Pods awaiting for the finalizer marked as Failed after the kubelet restart. ([#127208](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127208), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Kubeadm: started using a named port 'probe-port' for all probes in the static pod manifests for kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, kube-scheduler and etc. If you have previously patched the port values in probes with kubeadm patches, you must now also patch the named port value in the pod container under 'ports'. ([#132776](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132776),...

- Bump node-problem-detector version to v0.8.5 to fix OOM detection in with Linux kernels 5.1+ ([#96716](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96716), [@tosi3k](https://github.com/tosi3k)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Scalability and Testing]

* Fixed parsing of fsType in AWS StorageClass parameters ([#75944](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75944), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* Node-Problem-Detector configuration is now decoupled from the Kubernetes release on GKE/GCE. ([#73288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73288), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))

- Terminated Pods on a node will not be re-admitted on kubelet restart. This fixes the problem of Completed Pods awaiting for the finalizer marked as Failed after the kubelet restart. ([#127210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127210), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Node and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Bump node-problem-detector version to v0.8.5 to fix OOM detection in with Linux kernels 5.1+ ([#96716](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96716), [@tosi3k](https://github.com/tosi3k)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Scalability and Testing]

- Pod status updates faster when reacting on probe results. The first readiness probe will be called faster when startup probes succeeded, which will make Pod status as ready faster. ([#98376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98376), [@matthyx](https://github.com/matthyx))

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