- Eliminated and prevented future use of the `md5` algorithm in favor of more appropriate hashing algorithms. ([#133511](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133511), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Apps, Architecture, CLI, Cluster Lifecycle, Network, Node, Security, Storage and Testing]

  cluster with ECDSA certificates from "kubeadm init". Renewal of existing ECDSA certificates is also supported using "kubeadm alpha certs renew", but not switching between the RSA and ECDSA algorithms on the fly or during upgrades. ([#86953](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86953), [@rojkov](https://github.com/rojkov)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cluster Lifecycle]

* kube-apiserver: the OpenID Connect authenticator can now verify ID Tokens signed with JOSE algorithms other than RS256 through the --oidc-signing-algs flag. ([#58544](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58544), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

* Default behavior in Cinder storageclass is changed. If availability is not specified, the zone is chosen by algorithm. It makes possible to spread stateful pods across many zones. ([#44798](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44798), [@zetaab](https://github.com/zetaab))

- Kubernetes 1.24 bumped version of golang it is compiled with to go1.18, which introduced significant changes to its garbage collection algorithm. As a result, we observed an increase in memory usage for kube-apiserver in larger an heavily loaded clusters up to ~25% (with the benefit of API call latencies drop by up to 10x on 99th percentiles). If the memory increase is not acceptable for...

### SIG-autoscaling

SIG Autoscaling focused on improving the Horizontal Pod Autoscaling API and algorithm:
- We released autoscaling/v2beta2, which cleans up and unifies the API
- We improved readiness detection and smoothing to work well in a larger variety or use cases

### SIG-Azure

- kubeadm will now not fail preflight checks when running on >= 5.0 Linux kernel ([#74355](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74355), [@brb](https://github.com/brb))
- Scheduler cache snapshot algorithm has been optimized to improve scheduling throughput. ([#74041](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74041), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

*   Object count quotas supported on all standard resources using count/<resource>.<group> syntax ([#54320](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54320),[ @derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))
*   Apply algorithm in scheduler by feature gates. ([#52723](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52723),[ @k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

### Server-side Apply graduates to GA

- Kube-proxy: Checked whether IPv6 was available on Linux before using it. ([#131265](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131265), [@rikatz](https://github.com/rikatz))
- Kubeadm: Added support for ECDSA-P384 as an encryption algorithm type in v1beta4. ([#131677](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131677), [@lalitc375](https://github.com/lalitc375))