- [Scheduling](#scheduling-1)
      - [Storage](#storage)
    - [Cluster Federation](#cluster-federation)
      - [[alpha] Federated Jobs](#alpha-federated-jobs)
      - [[alpha] Federated Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)](#alpha-federated-horizontal-pod-autoscaling-hpa)
    - [Node Components](#node-components)
      - [Autoscaling and Metrics](#autoscaling-and-metrics)
        - [Cluster Autoscaler](#cluster-autoscaler)

- Enabled `kube-controller-manager` to support '--concurrent-horizontal-pod-autoscaler-syncs' flag to set the number of horizontal pod autoscaler controller workers. ([#108501](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108501), [@zroubalik](https://github.com/zroubalik))

- Kube-controller-manager: the `--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-use-rest-clients` flag and Heapster support in the horizontal pod autoscaler, deprecated since 1.12, is removed. ([#90368](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90368), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

double quotes <code>""</code> or back quotes <code>``</code>.
</p>

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The form <code>a … b</code> represents the set of characters from
<code>a</code> through <code>b</code> as alternatives. The horizontal
ellipsis <code>…</code> is also used elsewhere in the spec to informally denote various
enumerations or code snippets that are not further specified. The character <code>…</code>

- Fix PermissionDenied issue on SMB mount for Windows ([#99550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99550), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Fix bug that would let the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler scale down despite at least one metric being unavailable/invalid ([#99514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99514), [@mikkeloscar](https://github.com/mikkeloscar)) [SIG Apps and Autoscaling]

- Fixed issue in `Winkernel` Proxier - Unexpected active TCP connection drops while horizontally scaling the endpoints for a LoadBalancer Service with Internal Traffic Policy: `Local` ([#113742](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113742), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira))

- Fixing issue in Winkernel Proxier - Unexpected active TCP connection drops while horizontally scaling the endpoints for a LoadBalancer Service with External Traffic Policy: Local ([#114039](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114039), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network]

- Fixing issue in Winkernel Proxier - Unexpected active TCP connection drops while horizontally scaling the endpoints for a LoadBalancer Service with External Traffic Policy: Local ([#114040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114040), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network]