([#123271](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123271), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

### **Networking**
#### Network Policy
* [stable] [NetworkPolicy](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/network-policies/) promoted to GA.
  * Additionally adds short name "netpol" for networkpolicies ([#42241](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42241), [@xiangpengzhao](https://github.com/xiangpengzhao))


#### Load Balancing

- Fixed bug in `TopologyManager`...

- Fix instance not found issues when an Azure Node is recreated in a short time ([#93316](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93316), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

     * traverse. When nodes would otherwise be changed, new nodes are created to replace them. This
     * works well for hash tables since the bin lists tend to be short. (The average length is less
     * than two.)
     *
     * Read operations can thus proceed without locking, but rely on selected uses of volatiles to

were rapidly scheduled after other pods were reported as complete in the API. The Kubelet now waits to report the phase of a pod as terminal in the API until all running containers are guaranteed to have stopped and no new containers can be started.  Short-lived pods may take slightly longer (~1s) to report Succeeded or Failed after this change. ([#108723](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108723), [@bobbypage](https://github.com/bobbypage)) [SIG Apps, Node and Testing]

## Dependencies...

### Introducing Graceful Node Shutdown (Alpha)

* Create now accepts the label selector flag for filtering objects to create ([#40057](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40057), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))
* Top now accepts short forms for "node" and "pod" ("no", "po") ([#39218](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39218), [@luksa](https://github.com/luksa))

ackoffManager` and `wait.NewJitteringBackoffManager` functions have been marked as deprecated.  Callers should switch to using the `Backoff{...}.DelayWithReset(clock, resetInterval)` method and must set the `Steps` field when using `Factor`. As a short term change, callers may use the `Timer()` method on the `BackoffManager` until the backoff managers are deprecated and removed. Please see the godoc of the deprecated functions for examples of how to replace usage of this function. ([#107826](htt...

		{"enc-mp-1", []int64{5*oneMiB + 1, 10}, mapCopy(metaWithSSEC)},
		{"enc-mp-2", []int64{5487701, 5487799, 3}, mapCopy(metaWithSSEC)},
		{"enc-mp-3", []int64{10499807, 10499963, 7}, mapCopy(metaWithSSEC)},
	}
	if testing.Short() {
		objectInputs = append(objectInputs[0:5], objectInputs[8:11]...)
	}
	// iterate through the above set of inputs and upload the object.
	for _, input := range objectInputs {