- The Kubernetes API server now correctly detects and closes existing TLS connections when its client certificate file for kubelet authentication has been rotated. ([#115580](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115580), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery, Node and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126694), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

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### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126691), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

### Volumes
* **[stable]** StorageClass API is promoted to v1 (storage.k8s.io/v1).
* **[stable]** Default storage classes are deployed during installation on Azure, AWS, GCE, OpenStack and vSphere.
* **[stable]** Added ability to populate environment variables from a configmap or secret.

- Fixes a bug of identifying the correct containerd process. ([#97888](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97888), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- Fixes add-on manager leader election to use leases instead of endpoints, similar to what kube-controller-manager does in 1.20 ([#98968](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98968), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

be <i>exact</i> or <i>loose</i>.
As unification recursively descends a composite type structure,
the matching mode used for elements of the type, the <i>element matching mode</i>,
remains the same as the matching mode except when two types are unified for
<a href="#Assignability">assignability</a> (<code>≡<sub>A</sub></code>):
in this case, the matching mode is <i>loose</i> at the top level but

- The Kubernetes API server now correctly detects and closes existing TLS connections when its client certificate file for kubelet authentication has been rotated. ([#115567](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115567), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery, Node and Testing]

- The Kubernetes API server now correctly detects and closes existing TLS connections when its client certificate file for kubelet authentication has been rotated. ([#115566](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115566), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery, Node and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126695), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]