- Added new option to the InterPodAffinity scheduler plugin to ignore existing pods` preferred inter-pod affinities if the incoming pod has no preferred inter-pod affinities. This option can be used as an optimization for higher scheduling throughput (at the cost of an occasional pod being scheduled non-optimally/violating existing pods' preferred inter-pod affinities). To enable this scheduler option, set the InterPodAffinity scheduler plugin arg "ignor...

- Mark Job onPodConditions as optional in pod failure policy ([#120208](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120208), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]

### Feature

#### Storage

* [stable] Mount options

  * The ability to specify mount options for volumes is moved from beta to stable.

  * A new `MountOptions` field in the `PersistentVolume` spec is available to specify mount options. This field replaces an annotation.

  * A new `MountOptions` field in the `StorageClass` spec allows configuration of mount options for dynamically provisioned volumes.

- Adds support for `InterfaceNamePrefix` and `BridgeInterface` as arguments to `--detect-local-mode` option and also introduces a new optional `--pod-interface-name-prefix` and `--pod-bridge-interface` flags to kube-proxy. ([#95400](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95400), [@tssurya](https://github.com/tssurya))

## Changelog since v1.25.13

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Mark Job onPodConditions as optional in pod failure policy ([#120211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120211), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]

### Feature

  
  As this code is still very new, it has not been heavily optimized yet;
  while it is expected to _eventually_ have better performance than the
  iptables backend, very little performance testing has been done so far. ([#121046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121046), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

- Added a `--topology-manager-policy-options` flag to the kubelet to support fine tuning the topology manager policies. The first policy option, `prefer-closest-numa-nodes`, allows these policies to favor sets of NUMA nodes with shorter distance between nodes when making admission decisions. ([#112914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112914),...