- Finalizer Protection for Service LoadBalancers (ServiceLoadBalancerFinalizer) has been added as an Alpha feature, which is disabled by default. This feature ensures the Service resource is not fully deleted until the correlating load balancer resources are...

  
  With this patch, the external provisioner can remove the finalizer in next reconcile loop. Unfortunately if the provious existing pv has the Failed state, this patch won't take effort. It requires users to remove finalizer. ([#126045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126045), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

Dann hörte APIStar auf, als Server zu existieren, und Starlette wurde geschaffen, welches eine neue, bessere Grundlage für ein solches System bildete. Das war die finale Inspiration für die Entwicklung von **FastAPI**.

- Fix log line in scheduler that inaccurately implies that volume binding has finalized ([#116048](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116048), [@TommyStarK](https://github.com/TommyStarK)) [SIG Scheduling and Storage]

- Fixes a bug where Services using finalizers may hold onto ClusterIP and/or NodePort allocated resources for longer than expected if the finalizer is removed using the status subresource ([#120655](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120655), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]

- `metadata.deletionTimestamp` is no longer moved into the future when issuing repeated DELETE requests against a resource containing a finalizer. ([#73138](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73138), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Add garbage collector into kube-controller-manager ([#26341](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26341), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))
* Add orphaning finalizer logic to GC ([#25599](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25599), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix Job tracking with finalizers for more than 500 pods, ensuring all finalizers are removed before counting the Pod. ([#104876](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104876), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps]

- Fixes a bug where Services using finalizers may hold onto ClusterIP and/or NodePort allocated resources for longer than expected if the finalizer is removed using the status subresource ([#120657](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120657), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]

* Fixed controller manager crash by making it tolerant to discovery errors.([#49767](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49767), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))