- Force deleted pods may fail to terminate until the kubelet is restarted when the container runtime returns an error during termination. We have strengthened testing for runtime failures and now perform a more rigorous reconciliation to ensure static pods (especially those that use fixed...

- Fix the regression with the slow pods termination. Before this fix pods may take an additional time to terminate - up to one minute. Reversing the change that ensured that CNI resources cleaned up when the pod is removed on API server. ([#97980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97980), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG...

- Active watches of custom resources now terminate properly if the CRD is modified. ([#78029](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78029), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Scheduling

- Scheduler should terminate when it loses leader lock. ([#81306](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81306), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla))

* Fix broken detection of non-root image user ID ([#78261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78261), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))
* Active watches of custom resources now terminate properly if the CRD is modified. ([#78029](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78029), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Kubelet did not report `kubelet_volume_stats_*` metrics for Generic Ephemeral Volumes. ([#105569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105569), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))
- Kubelet's Node Grace Shutdown will terminate probes when shutting down ([#105215](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105215), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips))

- Fixed a bug that init containers with `Always` restartPolicy may not terminate gracefully if the pod hasn't initialized yet. ([#126332](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126332), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Fixed a bug that init containers with `Always` restartPolicy may not terminate gracefully if the pod hasn't initialized yet. ([#125935](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125935), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node and Testing]

* Active watches of custom resources now terminate properly if the CRD is modified. ([#78029](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78029), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fixed a bug that init containers with `Always` restartPolicy may not terminate gracefully if the pod hasn't initialized yet. ([#126331](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126331), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node and Testing]