Previously, when unschedulable Pods are updated, the scheduler always put Pods back to activeQ/backoffQ. But, actually not all updates to Pods make Pods schedulable, especially considering many scheduling constraints nowadays are immutable.

- `LabelSelectors` specified in `topologySpreadConstraints` were validated to ensure that pods are scheduled as expected. Existing pods with invalid `LabelSelectors` could be updated, but new pods were required to specify valid `LabelSelectors`. ([#111802](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111802), [@maaoBit](https://github.com/maaoBit))

consequence of this change the Kubelet now correctly takes into account the resources of running and terminating pods when deciding to accept new pods, since terminating pods are still holding on to those resources. This stricter handling may surface to end users as pod rejections when creating pods that are scheduled to mostly full nodes that have other terminating pods holding the resources the new pods need. The most likely error would be a pod set to `Failed` phase with reason set to `OutOfCpu` or `OutOfMemory`,...

- Fix a bug that Pods could stuck in the unschedulable pod pool 
  if they're rejected by PreEnqueue plugins that could change its result by a change in resources apart from Pods.
  
  DRA plugin is the only plugin that meets the criteria of the bug in in-tree, 
  and hence if you have `DynamicResourceAllocation` feature flag enabled, 

- Fix a bug that Pods could stuck in the unschedulable pod pool 
  if they're rejected by PreEnqueue plugins that could change its result by a change in resources apart from Pods.
  
  DRA plugin is the only plugin that meets the criteria of the bug in in-tree, 
  and hence if you have `DynamicResourceAllocation` feature flag enabled, 

- Fixed a regression that could incorrectly reject pods with OutOfCpu errors if they were rapidly scheduled after other pods were reported as complete in the API. The Kubelet now waits to report the phase of a pod as terminal in the API until all running containers are guaranteed to have stopped and no new containers can be started.  Short-lived pods may take slightly longer (~1s) to report Succeeded or Failed after this change. ([#108723](https://...

* StatefulSets now include an alpha scaling feature accessible by setting the `spec.podManagementPolicy` field to `Parallel`.  The controller will not wait for pods to be ready before adding the other pods, and will replace deleted pods as needed.  Since parallel scaling creates pods out of order, you cannot depend on predictable membership changes within your set. ([#44899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44899), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))...

- Fixes a regression introduced in 1.29 where conntrack entries for UDP connections
  to deleted pods did not get cleaned up correctly, which could (among other things)
  cause DNS problems when DNS pods were restarted. ([#127807](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127807), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network]

ernetes.io`, deprecated since v1.19, was partially removed. Kubelets no longer support the annotations, use of the annotations in static pods is no longer supported, and the seccomp annotations are no longer auto-populated when pods with seccomp fields are created. Auto-population of the seccomp fields from the annotations is planned to be removed in 1.27. Pods  should use the corresponding pod or container `securityContext.seccompProfile` field instead. ([#109819](https://github.com/kubernetes/...

- Fixed a regression that could incorrectly reject pods with `OutOfCpu` errors if they were rapidly scheduled after other pods were reported as complete in the API. The Kubelet now waits to report the phase of a pod as terminal in the API until all running containers are guaranteed to have stopped and no new containers can be started.  Short-lived pods may take slightly longer (~1s) to report Succeeded or Failed after this change. ([#108366](https:/...