For initial installations, see the [Setup topics](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/pick-right-solution/) in the Kubernetes documentation.

- Overall, enable the feature of `PreferNominatedNode` will  improve the performance of scheduling where preemption might frequently happen, but in theory, enable the feature of `PreferNominatedNode`, the pod might not be scheduled to the best candidate node in the cluster. ([#93179](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93179), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

- Fixed a 1.28 regression around restarting init containers in the right order relative to normal containers ([#120440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120440), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node and Testing]

For more information and for updates on resolution of this issue, see [#51899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/51899).

 - CSINode initialization does not crash kubelet on startup when APIServer is not reachable or kubelet has not the right credentials yet. ([#89589](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89589), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Storage]

 - CSINode initialization does not crash kubelet on startup when APIServer is not reachable or kubelet has not the right credentials yet. ([#89589](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89589), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Storage]

- Fixes issue [#68899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/68899) where pods might schedule on an unschedulable node. ([#68984](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/68984), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

### Not Very Notable (that is, non-user-facing)

- `--log-flush-frequency` had no effect in several commands or was missing. Help and warning texts were not always using the right format for a command (`add_dir_header` instead of `add-dir-header`). Fixing this included cleaning up flag handling in component-base/logs: that package no longer adds flags to the global flag sets. Commands which want the klog and `--log-flush-frequency`...

- Updates the `requestedToCapacityRatioArguments` to add resources parameter that allows the users to specify the resource name along with weights for each resource to score nodes based on the request to capacity ratio. ([#77688](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77688), [@sudeshsh](https://github.com/sudeshsh))

- The `kube-proxy` log now shows the "Skipping topology aware endpoint filtering since no hints were provided for zone" warning under the right conditions. ([#101857](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101857), [@dervoeti](https://github.com/dervoeti))