* fix: detach azure disk issue using dangling error ([#81266](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81266), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix a bug in the IPVS proxier where virtual servers are not cleaned up even though the corresponding Service object was deleted. ([#80942](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80942), [@gongguan](https://github.com/gongguan))

* kube-scheduler: restores default leader election behavior. leader-elect command line parameter should "true" ([#60524](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60524), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- Client-go: Optimized leaders renewing leases by updating leader lock optimistically without getting the record from the API server first. Also, a new metric `leader_election_slowpath_total` was added to allow users to monitor how many leader elections are updated non-optimistically.

* Updated priority of mirror pod according to PriorityClassName. ([#58485](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58485), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

* kube-scheduler: restores default leader election behavior. Setting the `--leader-elect`  command line parameter to `true` ([#60524](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60524), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

   *
   * <p>Entries in the map can be in the following states:
   *
   * <p>Valid: - Live: valid key/value are set
   *
   * <p>Invalid: - Collected: key/value was partially collected, but not yet cleaned up
   */
  interface InternalEntry<K, V, E extends InternalEntry<K, V, E>> {
    /** Gets the next entry in the chain. */
    E getNext();

    /** Gets the entry's hash. */
    int getHash();

- 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://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Node]

- Fix a bug in the dual-stack IPVS proxier where stale IPv6 endpoints were not being cleaned up ([#87695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87695), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG Network]

* Fix metrics API group name in audit configuration ([#53493](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53493), [@piosz](https://github.com/piosz))
* Use separate client for leader election in scheduler to avoid starving leader election by regular scheduler operations. ([#53793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53793), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

	// and allowed to save.
	z.poolMeta = newPoolMeta(z, poolMeta{})
	z.poolMeta.dontSave = true

	bootstrapTrace("newSharedLock", func() {
		globalLeaderLock = newSharedLock(GlobalContext, z, "leader.lock")
	})

	// Start self healing after the object initialization
	// so various tasks will be useful
	bootstrapTrace("initAutoHeal", func() {
		initAutoHeal(GlobalContext, z)
	})

- Added Coordinated Leader Election as Alpha under the `CoordinatedLeaderElection` feature gate. With the feature enabled, the control plane can use LeaseCandidate objects (coordination.k8s.io/v1alpha1 API group) to participate in a leader election and let the kube-apiserver select the best instance according to some strategy. ([#124012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124012),...