- Fixes regression in 1.25.10 causing running pods with devices to be terminated if kubelet is restarted ([#119707](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119707), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani)) [SIG Node and Testing]

#### **Other**

*   Pod addresses will now be removed from the list of endpoints when the pod is in graceful termination. ([#54828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54828),[ @freehan](https://github.com/freehan))

- Fix the regression with the slow pods termination. Before this fix pods may take an additional time to terminate - up to one minute. Reversing the change that ensured that CNI resources cleaned up when the pod is removed on API server. ([#97980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97980), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https:...

- Fix the regression with the slow pods termination. Before this fix pods may take an additional time to terminate - up to one minute. Reversing the change that ensured that CNI resources cleaned up when the pod is removed on API server. ([#97980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97980), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https:...

- kubeadm: ensure that Pods from the upgrade preflight check `CreateJob` are properly terminated after a timeout. ([#127333](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127333), [@yuyabee](https://github.com/yuyabee)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

    SettableFuture<String> resultOfCombiner = SettableFuture.create();
    AsyncCallable<String> combiner =
        tagged(
            "Called my toString",
            () -> {
              // Make this executor terminate after this task so that the test can tell when
              // futureResult has received resultOfCombiner.
              executor.shutdown();
              callableBlocking.await();

    SettableFuture<String> resultOfCombiner = SettableFuture.create();
    AsyncCallable<String> combiner =
        tagged(
            "Called my toString",
            () -> {
              // Make this executor terminate after this task so that the test can tell when
              // futureResult has received resultOfCombiner.
              executor.shutdown();
              callableBlocking.await();

- Enabled the feature gate `ContainerRestartRules` by default. The `ContainerRestartRules` feature has been promoted to beta. Fixed a bug in this feature that caused probes to continue to run even if the container has terminated and is not restartable. ([#134631](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134631), [@yuanwang04](https://github.com/yuanwang04))
- Graduated the `PodTopologyLabelsAdmission` feature gate to Beta and enabled it by default.

* Fix race condition introduced by graceful termination which can lead to a deadlock in kube-proxy ([#72361](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72361), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

- Fixed a bug in the single-numa-policy of the TopologyManager. Previously, best-effort pods would result in a terminated state with a TopologyAffinity error. Now they will run as expected. ([#83777](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83777), [@lmdaly](https://github.com/lmdaly))