- [`KT-56421`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-56421) Gradle: plugin should not use BasePluginExtension deprecated properties
- [`KT-55241`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-55241) Gradle: the VariantImplementationFactories build service state is not persistent making impossible to access factories with configuration cache lazily

- Fix scoring for `NodeResourcesMostAllocated` and `NodeResourcesBalancedAllocation` plugins when nodes have containers with no requests. This was leaving to under-utilization of small nodes. ([#102925](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102925), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))

feature gate `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap` to GA and locked it to `true` by default. The kubelet related ConfigMap and RBAC rules are now locked to have a simplified naming `*kubelet-config` instead of the legacy naming `*kubelet-config-x.yy`, where `x.yy` was the version of the control plane. If you have previously used the old naming format with `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap=false`, you must manually copy the config map from `kube-system/kubelet-config-x.yy` to `kube-system/kubelet-config` before...

graduated the `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap` feature gate to Beta and enabled the feature by default. This implies that 1) for new clusters kubeadm will start using the `kube-system/kubelet-config` naming scheme for the kubelet ConfigMap and RBAC rules, instead of the legacy `kubelet-config-x.yy` naming. 2) during upgrade, kubeadm will only write the new scheme ConfigMap and RBAC objects. To disable the feature you can pass `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap: false` in the kubeadm config for new clusters....

- Since golang 1.17 both net.ParseIP and net.ParseCIDR rejects leading zeros in the dot-decimal notation of IPv4 addresses,
  Kubernetes will keep allowing leading zeros on IPv4 address to not break the compatibility.
  IMPORTANT: Kubernetes interprets leading zeros on IPv4 addresses as decimal, users must not rely on parser alignment to not being impacted by the associated security advisory:

- Add limited lines to log when having tail option ([#93920](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93920), [@zhouya0](https://github.com/zhouya0)) [SIG Node]
- Avoid systemd-logind loading configuration warning ([#97950](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97950), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]

- Made `apiextensions-apiserver` binary linking static (also affects the deb and rpm packages). ([#114226](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114226), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

  - If no QueueingHintFn returns QueueImmediately and more than one plugin returns QueueAfterBackoff, it queues Pod to backoffQ if Pod is backing off, or to activeQ if Pod's backoff has already finished.
  - If all QueueingHintFn return QueueSkip, it puts this pod back to the unschedulable pod pool
  
  Having appropriate QueueingHintFn contributes to reducing useless retries and thus improves the overall scheduler's performance.
  

* Allow having empty paths in *path operations* used with `include_router` and a `prefix`.
    * This allows having a router for `/cats` and all its *path operations*, while having one of them for `/cats`.
    * Now it doesn't have to be only `/cats/` (with a trailing slash).

* Azuredisk mount on windows node ([#51252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51252), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* [fluentd-gcp addon] Bug with event-exporter leaking memory on metrics in clusters with CA is fixed. ([#52263](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52263), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))