- Fixed bug which caused the status of Indexed Jobs to only be updated when there are newly completed indexes. The completed indexes are now updated if the .status.completedIndexes has values outside of the [0, .spec.completions> range ([#115460](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115460), [@danielvegamyhre](https://github.com/danielvegamyhre)) [SIG...

- Reverts graceful node shutdown to match 1.21 behavior of setting pods that have not yet successfully completed to "Failed" phase if the GracefulNodeShutdown feature is enabled in kubelet. The GracefulNodeShutdown feature is beta and must be explicitly configured via kubelet config to be enabled in 1.21+. This changes 1.22 and 1.23 behavior on node shutdown...

* Conformance tests may now include disruptive tests. If you are running tests against a live cluster, consider skipping those tests tagged as `Disruptive` to avoid non-test workloads being impacted. Be aware, skipping any conformance tests (even disruptive ones) will make the results ineligible for consideration for the CNCF Certified Kubernetes program. ([#82664](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82664), [@johnSchnake](https:/...

- Containers which specify a `startupProbe` but not a `readinessProbe` were previously considered "ready" before the `startupProbe` completed, but are now considered "not-ready". ([#92196](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92196), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin)) [SIG Node]

- Containers which specify a `startupProbe` but not a `readinessProbe` were previously considered "ready" before the `startupProbe` completed, but are now considered "not-ready". ([#92196](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92196), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin)) [SIG Node]

* [IPVS] Introduces flag ipvs-strict-arp to configure stricter ARP sysctls, defaulting to false to preserve existing behaviors. This was enabled by default in 1.13.0, which impacted a few CNI plugins. ([#75295](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75295), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

* [IPVS] Introduces flag ipvs-strict-arp to configure stricter ARP sysctls, defaulting to false to preserve existing behaviors. This was enabled by default in 1.13.0, which impacted a few CNI plugins. ([#75295](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75295), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

- Terminated Pods on a node will not be re-admitted on kubelet restart. This fixes the problem of Completed Pods awaiting for the finalizer marked as Failed after the kubelet restart. ([#127209](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127209), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Node and Testing]

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## External Dependencies

*   The supported etcd server version is **3.1.10**, as compared to 3.0.17 in v1.8 ([#49393](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49393),[ @hongchaodeng](https://github.com/hongchaodeng))
*   The validated docker versions are the same as for v1.8: **1.11.2 to 1.13.1 and 17.03.x**