- Enabled graceful shutdown feature for Windows node ([#127404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127404), [@zylxjtu](https://github.com/zylxjtu)) [SIG Node, Testing and Windows]

- Kubelet Graceful Node Shutdown feature graduates to Beta and enabled by default. ([#99735](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99735), [@bobbypage](https://github.com/bobbypage))

- Fix /readyz to return error immediately after a shutdown is initiated, before the --shutdown-delay-duration has elapsed. ([#88911](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88911), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]

      threadAboutToBlockForRefresh.set(Thread.currentThread());
      assertThat(cache.getOrLoad("test")).isEqualTo("testReload");
    } finally {
      refreshExecutor.shutdown();
    }
  }

  public void testSetRemovalListener() {
    RemovalListener<Object, Object> testListener = TestingRemovalListeners.nullRemovalListener();
    LocalCache<Object, Object> map =

      threadAboutToBlockForRefresh.set(Thread.currentThread());
      assertThat(cache.getOrLoad("test")).isEqualTo("testReload");
    } finally {
      refreshExecutor.shutdown();
    }
  }

  public void testSetRemovalListener() {
    RemovalListener<Object, Object> testListener = TestingRemovalListeners.nullRemovalListener();
    LocalCache<Object, Object> map =

* Do not remove shutdown nodes from api-server for vSphere. ([#70291](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70291), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
    * Fixes volume detach from shutdown nodes.

  the change pods which use RestartPolicy=Always may end up in the Succeeded phase in two scenarios: pod 
  deletion and graceful node shutdown. ([#115331](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115331), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Node and Testing]

* advanced audit: shutdown batching audit webhook gracefully ([#50577](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50577), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))
* Add Priority admission controller for monitoring and resolving PriorityClasses. ([#49322](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49322), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

- Fixed an issue where the default `serviceCIDR` controller did not log events because the event broadcaster was shutdown during initialization. ([#133338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133338), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

- Fixed graceful apiserver shutdown to not drop outgoing bytes before the process terminates. ([#72970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72970), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

### Apps