- Apiserver repair controller is resilient to etcd errors during bootstrap and retries during 30 seconds before failing. ([#126671](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126671), [@fusida](https://github.com/fusida)) [SIG Network]

    * faster handoff when a leader-elected process is gracefully terminated.
* Make volume binder resilient to races between main schedule loop and async binding operation  ([#72045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72045), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

ister-cluster/cpu-management-policies/), which allows users to request exclusive CPU cores.  This helps performance in a variety of use-cases, including network latency sensitive applications, as well as applications that benefit from CPU cache residency.  Next, [Huge Pages](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/manage-hugepages/scheduling-hugepages/), which allows pods to consume either 2Mi or 1Gi Huge Pages.  This benefits applications that consume large amounts of memory.  Use of Huge Pages is a common...

- Introduced `Wait(context.Context) error` method in pkg k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/storage/cacher to improve watch cache initialization resilience. ([#125450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125450), [@mauri870](https://github.com/mauri870))