- Finalizer Protection for Service LoadBalancers (S...

* Promote kubelet tls bootstrap to beta. Add a non-experimental flag to use it and deprecate the old flag. ([#46799](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46799), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))
* Fix disk partition discovery for brtfs ([#46816](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46816), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
    * Add ZFS support
    * Add overlay2 storage driver support

    // During execution:
    //   * task:0 processes main function `VariableAddFunctionWithGraphError`
    //     and places the 'read0_maybe_with_graph_error' op on task:2
    //   * task:0 partitions the main function with a subgraph containing
    //     'read0_maybe_with_graph_error' sent to task:2
    //   * task:2 graph pass reports an error when it sees
    //     'read0_maybe_with_graph_error' with dev2_name

  }

  /**
   * Guides the allowed concurrency among update operations. Used as a hint for internal sizing. The
   * table is internally partitioned to try to permit the indicated number of concurrent updates
   * without contention. Because assignment of entries to these partitions is not necessarily
   * uniform, the actual concurrency observed may vary. Ideally, you should choose a value to

        }
      }
    ```

### Timeouts ([.kt][ConfigureTimeoutsKotlin], [.java][ConfigureTimeoutsJava])

Use timeouts to fail a call when its peer is unreachable. Network partitions can be due to client connectivity problems, server availability problems, or anything between. OkHttp supports connect, write, read, and full call timeouts.

=== ":material-language-kotlin: Kotlin"
    ```kotlin

  // the Kubelet will send a hard termination signal (SIGKILL) to the container and after cleanup,
  // remove the pod from the API. In the presence of network partitions, this object may still
  // exist after this timestamp, until an administrator or automated process can determine the
  // resource is fully terminated.
  // If not set, graceful deletion of the object has not been requested.

- Feat: change parittion style to GPT on Windows ([#101412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101412), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage and Windows]

- Allowed specifying `ExternalTrafficPolicy` for `Services` with `ExternalIPs`. ([#119150](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119150), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn))
- Changed kubelet logs from `error` to `info` for uncached partitions when using CRI stats provider. ([#100448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100448), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

* Fixed data loss issue if using existing azure disk with partitions in disk mount  ([#63270](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63270), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

### Feature

- A new client side metric `rest_client_request_retries_total` has been added that tracks the number of retries sent to the server, partitioned by status code, verb and host ([#108396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108396), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))