- Failed pods associated with a job with `parallelism = 1` are recreated by the job controller honoring exponential backoff delay again. However, for jobs with `parallelism > 1`, pods might be created without exponential backoff delay. ([#115020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115020), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita)) [SIG Apps]

### Misc

- Added a delay to node updates after kubelet startup. A random offset, based on the configured `nodeStatusReportFrequency`, helped distribute traffic and load from node status updates more evenly over time. The initial status update could occur up to 50% earlier...

- Fixed computing backoff delay when using Job pod failure policy, by including in the backoff delay calculation pod failures ignored from the backoffLimit counter. ([#119434](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119434), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))

    public synchronized void close() {
        final SmbTreeHandleImpl th = this.treeHandle;
        if (th != null) {
            this.treeHandle = null;

            // Optimization: For non-strict lifecycle, delay tree handle closure
            // to allow connection reuse for subsequent operations
            if (this.transportContext.getConfig().isStrictResourceLifecycle()) {
                th.close();
            } else {

    }
  }

  static final Ticker NULL_TICKER =
      new Ticker() {
        @Override
        public long read() {
          return 0;
        }
      };

  // We use a holder class to delay initialization: https://github.com/google/guava/issues/6566
  private static final class LoggerHolder {
    static final Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(CacheBuilder.class.getName());
  }

        // Node is back online - could rebalance connections
    }

    /**
     * Schedule a reconnection attempt
     *
     * @param delayMs delay in milliseconds
     */
    private void scheduleReconnection(long delayMs) {
        CompletableFuture.delayedExecutor(delayMs, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS).execute(() -> {
            try {

				} else {
					newFolders = append(newFolders, this)
				}
				return nil
			}

			wait := noWait
			if f.weSleep() {
				// Dynamic time delay.
				wait = scannerSleeper.Timer(ctx)
			}

			// Get file size, ignore errors.
			item := scannerItem{
				Path:        pathJoin(f.root, entName),
				Typ:         typ,
				bucket:      bucket,

- Fix computing backoff delay when using Job pod failure policy, by including in the backoff delay calculation pod failures ignored from the backoffLimit counter.
  
  Also, compute the backoff delay more accurately for deleted pods. ([#119466](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119466), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps]

  fun pingsTransmitted() {
    // Ping every 500 ms, starting at 500 ms.
    client =
      client
        .newBuilder()
        .pingInterval(Duration.ofMillis(500))
        .build()

    // Delay the response to give 1 ping enough time to be sent and replied to.
    server.enqueue(
      MockResponse
        .Builder()
        .bodyDelay(750, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
        .body("ABC")
        .build(),