* Tolerate missing watch permission when deleting a resource ([#65370](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65370), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))
* Prevents a `kubectl delete` hang when deleting controller managed lists ([#65367](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65367), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

- Fix detach disk issue on deleting vmss node. ([#104572](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104572), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* Fixed potential deadlock when deleting CustomResourceDefinition for custom resources with finalizers. ([#60542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60542), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

	cache := store.lock()
	defer store.unlock()

	if !isFromNotification {
		// Check if policy is mapped to any existing user or group. If so, we do not
		// allow deletion of the policy. If the policy is mapped to an STS account,
		// we do allow deletion.
		users := []string{}
		groups := []string{}
		cache.iamUserPolicyMap.Range(func(u string, mp MappedPolicy) bool {
			pset := mp.policySet()

* fix azure disk mounter issue ([#52260](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52260), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* GCE: Fix issue deleting internal load balancers when the firewall resource may not exist. ([#53450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53450), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

		}(index, disk)
	}
	wg.Wait()

	// Reduce errors for each object
	for objIndex := range objects {
		diskErrs := make([]error, len(storageDisks))
		// Iterate over disks to fetch the error
		// of deleting of the current object
		for i := range delObjErrs {
			// delObjErrs[i] is not nil when disks[i] is also not nil
			if delObjErrs[i] != nil {
				diskErrs[i] = delObjErrs[i][objIndex]
			}
		}

- Kube-controller-manager: Removed flags  `deleting-pods-qps`, `deleting-pods-burst`, and `register-retry-count`. ([#109612](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109612), [@pandaamanda](https://github.com/pandaamanda))

  - Don't update capacity if VMSS provisioning state is updating
  - Support allocatable resources overrides via VMSS tags
  - Add missing stable labels in template nodes
  - Proactively set instance status to deleting on node deletions
  
  ### Cluster API
  - Migrate interaction with the API from using internal types to using Unstructured
  - Improve tests to work better with constrained resources
  - Add support for node auto-discovery

- The `controller.kubernetes.io/pod-deletion-cost` annotation can be set to offer a hint on the cost of deleting a `Pod` compared to other pods belonging to the same ReplicaSet. Pods with lower deletion cost are deleted first. This is an alpha feature. ([#99163](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99163), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g))

- Fixed a regression in default configurations, which enabled PodDisruptionConditions by default, 
  that prevented the control plane's pod garbage collector from deleting pods that contained duplicated field keys (env. variables with repeated keys or container ports). ([#121380](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121380), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Scheduling and Testing]