### Introducing Graceful Node Shutdown (Alpha)

The `GracefulNodeShutdown` feature is now in Alpha. This allows kubelet to be aware of node system shutdowns, enabling graceful termination of pods during a system shutdown. This feature can be [enabled through feature gate](https://docs.k8s.io/concepts/architecture/nodes/#graceful-node-shutdown).

### Runtime log sanitation

### SIG OpenStack

- Openstack now supports the node shutdown taint. The taint is added when an instance is shutdown in openstack. ([#67982](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67982), [@zetaab](https://github.com/zetaab))

### SIG Scheduling

      threadAboutToBlockForRefresh.set(Thread.currentThread());
      assertThat(cache.getOrLoad("test")).isEqualTo("testReload");
    } finally {
      refreshExecutor.shutdown();
    }
  }

  public void testSetRemovalListener() {
    RemovalListener<Object, Object> testListener = TestingRemovalListeners.nullRemovalListener();
    LocalCache<Object, Object> map =

- Kubelet Graceful Node Shutdown feature graduates to Beta and enabled by default. ([#99735](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99735), [@bobbypage](https://github.com/bobbypage))

  the change pods which use RestartPolicy=Always may end up in the Succeeded phase in two scenarios: pod 
  deletion and graceful node shutdown. ([#115331](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115331), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Node and Testing]

* Do not remove shutdown nodes from api-server for vSphere. ([#70291](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70291), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
    * Fixes volume detach from shutdown nodes.

    connection.withLock {
      if (!connection.isHealthy(System.nanoTime())) {
        throw ConnectionShutdownException()
      }
    }
    connection.writePing()
    connection.shutdown(ErrorCode.PROTOCOL_ERROR)
    assertThat(connection.openStreamCount()).isEqualTo(1)
    connection.awaitPong() // Prevent the peer from exiting prematurely.

    // Verify the peer received what was expected.

pkg syscall (darwin-386), const EREMOTE = 71
pkg syscall (darwin-386), const EROFS = 30
pkg syscall (darwin-386), const ERPCMISMATCH = 73
pkg syscall (darwin-386), const ESHLIBVERS = 87
pkg syscall (darwin-386), const ESHUTDOWN = 58
pkg syscall (darwin-386), const ESOCKTNOSUPPORT = 44
pkg syscall (darwin-386), const ESPIPE = 29
pkg syscall (darwin-386), const ESRCH = 3
pkg syscall (darwin-386), const ESTALE = 70

* advanced audit: shutdown batching audit webhook gracefully ([#50577](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50577), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))
* Add Priority admission controller for monitoring and resolving PriorityClasses. ([#49322](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49322), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

- Fix endpoint reconciler not being able to delete the apiserver lease on shutdown ([#114137](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114137), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG API Machinery]