* This eliminates the race conditions between the pod creation loop and the orphaned volumes loops. It also removes the unmount/detach from the `syncPod()` path so volume clean up never blocks the `syncPod` loop.



# v1.3.0-beta.1

- Declare Job as finished only after removing all Pod finalizers to avoid orphan Pods. ([#119159](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119159), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))

- Add foreground cascading deletion to kubectl with the new `kubectl delete foreground|background|orphan` option. ([#93384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93384), [@zhouya0](https://github.com/zhouya0))

* Fixed panic when accessing CustomResources of a CRD with x-kubernetes-int-or-string. ([#83790](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83790), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* Update Azure load balancer to prevent orphaned public IP addresses ([#82890](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82890), [@chewong](https://github.com/chewong))

## Changelog since v1.14.3

### Other notable changes

* fix kubelet fail to delete orphaned pod directory when the kubelet's pods directory (default is "/var/lib/kubelet/pods") symbolically links to another disk device's directory ([#79094](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79094), [@gaorong](https://github.com/gaorong))

- Enabled kube-controller-manager '--concurrent-job-syncs' flag works on orphan Pod processors ([#126567](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126567), [@fusida](https://github.com/fusida)) [SIG Apps]

- Only declare Job as finished after removing all Pod finalizers to avoid orphan Pods ([#119164](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119164), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Only declare Job as finished after removing all Pod finalizers to avoid orphan Pods ([#119165](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119165), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

* Improve Azure instance metadata handling by adding caches. ([#70353](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70353), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Ensure orphan public IPs on Azure deleted when service recreated with the same name. ([#70463](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70463), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Kubectl: Fixed panic when describing an ingress backend without an API Group ([#100505](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100505), [@lauchokyip](https://github.com/lauchokyip)) [SIG CLI]
- Kubelet now cleans up orphaned volume directories automatically ([#95301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95301), [@lorenz](https://github.com/lorenz)) [SIG Node and Storage]