- The `system-node-critical` and `system-cluster-critical` priority classes are now limited to the `kube-system` namespace by the `PodPriority` admission plugin (matching changes in 1.11.1+). ([#65593](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65593), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat)) Courtesy of SIG Scheduling...

* kube-apiserver: fixes error creating system priority classes when starting multiple apiservers simultaneously ([#67372](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67372), [@tanshanshan](https://github.com/tanshanshan))

* Disallow PriorityClass names with 'system-' prefix for user defined priority classes. ([#59382](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59382), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126693), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

### Volumes
* **[stable]** StorageClass API is promoted to v1 (storage.k8s.io/v1).
* **[stable]** Default storage classes are deployed during installation on Azure, AWS, GCE, OpenStack and vSphere.
* **[stable]** Added ability to populate environment variables from a configmap or secret.

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126691), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126695), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

A general comment containing no newlines acts like a space.
Any other comment acts like a newline.
</p>

<h3 id="Tokens">Tokens</h3>

<p>
Tokens form the vocabulary of the Go language.
There are four classes: <i>identifiers</i>, <i>keywords</i>, <i>operators
and punctuation</i>, and <i>literals</i>.  <i>White space</i>, formed from
spaces (U+0020), horizontal tabs (U+0009),
carriage returns (U+000D), and newlines (U+000A),

- Pod SecurityContext sysctls name parameter for update requests where the existing object's sysctl contains slashes and kubelet sysctl whitelist support contains slashes. ([#102393](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102393), [@mengjiao-liu](https://github.com/mengjiao-liu)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Node, Storage and Testing]