### API Change

- A new alpha feature gate, `MutableCSINodeAllocatableCount`, has been introduced.
  

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- Relaxed API validation to allow pod node selector to be mutable for gated pods (additions only, no deletions or mutations). ([#116161](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116161), [@danielvegamyhre](https://github.com/danielvegamyhre))

* The `spec.readinessGates` field is now dropped during creation of `Pod` objects unless the `PodReadinessGates` feature gate is enabled. ([#72695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72695), [@rajathagasthya](h...

- KMS Providers will install a healthz check for the status of kms-plugin in kube-apiservers' encryption config. ([#78540](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78540), [@immutableT](https://github.com/immutableT))
- Improves validation errors for custom resources ([#81212](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81212), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Include kms-plugin-container.manifest to master manifests tarball. ([#65035](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65035), [@immutableT](https://github.com/immutableT))
* kubeadm - Increase the manifest upgrade timeout to make upgrades more reliable. ([#65029](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65029), [@detiber](https://github.com/detiber))

- Node affinity, Node selectors, and tolerations are now mutable for Jobs that are suspended and have never been started ([#105479](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105479), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g))

- Introducing new semantic for metric `volume_operation_total_seconds` to be the end to end latency of volume provisioning/deletion. Existing metric "storage_operation_duration_seconds" will remain untouched, however it is...