- Fixed DaemonSet to update the status even if it fails to create a pod. ([#114818](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114818), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

    * If the serialization type is 'application/json':
    * If serialization fails, and the original status code was an failure (e.g. 4xx or 5xx), the original status code will be returned.

	secretKey  string
	signer     signerType
	secure     bool
	client     *http.Client
}

type check struct {
	*testing.T
	testType string
}

// Assert - checks if gotValue is same as expectedValue, if not fails the test.
func (c *check) Assert(gotValue interface{}, expectedValue interface{}) {
	c.Helper()
	if !reflect.DeepEqual(gotValue, expectedValue) {
		c.Fatalf("Test %s expected %v, got %v", c.testType, expectedValue, gotValue)

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- The `pod_scheduling_duration_seconds` metrics won't consider the time when a pod fails `PreEnqueue` (like being gated). ([#118049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118049), [@helayoty](https://github.com/helayoty))
- The kube-proxy `sync_proxy_rules_iptables_total` metric has now reverted back

## Known Issues

* Upgrade to etcd client 3.3.17 to fix bug where etcd client does not parse IPv6 addresses correctly when members are joining, and to fix bug where failover on multi-member etcd cluster fails certificate check on DNS mismatch ([#83968](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83968), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

	// An untyped nil does not need a pointer check, and when
	// _cgoCheckPointer returns the untyped nil the type assertion we
	// are going to insert will fail.  Easier to just skip nil arguments.
	// TODO: Note that this fails if nil is shadowed.
	if id, ok := arg.(*ast.Ident); ok && id.Name == "nil" {
		return false
	}

	return p.hasPointer(f, t, true)
}

* FIX: The OpenStack cloud providers DeleteRoute method fails to delete routes when it can’t find the corresponding instance in OpenStack. ([#62729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62729), [@databus23](https://github.com/databus23))

- Use force unmount for NFS volumes if regular mount fails after 1 minute timeout ([#96844](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96844), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage]
- Use network.Interface.VirtualMachine.ID to get the binded VM