- Mark Job onPodConditions as optional in pod failure policy ([#120210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120210), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]

### Feature

- Fixes a 1.30.0 regression in openapi descriptions of imagePullSecrets and hostAliases fields to mark the fields used as keys in those lists as either defaulted or required. ([#124694](https://gith...

- kube-scheduler
  - The alpha critical pod annotation (`scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/critical-pod`) is deprecated. Pod priority should be used instead to mark pods as critical. ([#70298](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70298), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

## Changelog since v1.4.0-beta.1

### Other notable changes

* Fix a bug in kubelet hostport logic which flushes KUBE-MARK-MASQ iptables chain ([#32413](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32413), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))

* Stick to 2.2.1 etcd ([#32404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32404), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))
* Fix a bug in kubelet hostport logic which flushes KUBE-MARK-MASQ iptables chain ([#32413](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32413), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))

  * Mark all static pods on the Master node as critical to prevent preemption ([#47356](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47356), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

- DRA: Device taints enable DRA drivers or admins to mark device as unusable, which prevents allocating them. Pods may also get evicted at runtime if a device becomes unusable, depending on the severity of the taint and whether the claim tolerates the taint. ([#130447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130447),...

- Added driver-owned fields in `ResourceSlice` to mark whether the device was shareable among multiple resource claims (or requests) and to specify how each capacity could be shared between different requests.

* Support KUBE_MAX_PD_VOLS on Azure ([#41398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41398), [@codablock](https://github.com/codablock))
* Mark multi-scheduler graduation to beta and then v1. ([#38871](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38871), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

- Mark Job onPodConditions as optional in pod failure policy ([#120209](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120209), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]

### Feature