Static pods will be deleted gracefully ([#99035](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99035), [@ehashman](https://github.com/ehashman)) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Truncates a message if it hits the NoteLengthLimit when the scheduler records an event for the pod that indicates the pod has failed to schedule. ([#98715](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98715), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Scheduling]

configuration to allow an optional `tokenAttribute` field to be configured. When it is set, the kubelet will provision a token with the given audience bound to the current pod and its service account. This KSA token along with required annotations on the KSA defined in configuration will be sent to the credential provider plugin via its standard input (along with the image information that is already sent today). The KSA annotations to be sent are configurable in the kubelet credential provider configuration....

- For statically provisioned PVs, if its volume source is CSI type or it has migrated annotation, when it's deleted, the PersisentVolume controller won't changes its phase to the Failed state. 
  

- For statically provisioned PVs, if its volume source is CSI type or it has migrated annotation, when it's deleted, the PersisentVolume controller won't changes its phase to the Failed state. 
  

- For statically provisioned PVs, if its volume source is CSI type or it has migrated annotation, when it's deleted, the PersisentVolume controller won't changes its phase to the Failed state. 
  

- Fix incorrect calculation for ResourceQuota with PriorityClass as its scope. ([#117825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117825), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Added
- github.com/antihax/optional: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/antihax/optional/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/benbjohnson/clock: [v1.0.3](https://github.com/benbjohnson/clock/tree/v1.0.3)
- github.com/bits-and-blooms/bitset: [v1.2.0](https://github.com/bits-and-blooms/bitset/tree/v1.2.0)
- github.com/certifi/gocertifi: [2c3bb06](https://github.com/certifi/gocertifi/tree/2c3bb06)

- The SchedulerAsyncAPICalls feature gate has been disabled to mitigate a bug where its interaction with asynchronous preemption in could degrade kube-scheduler performance, particularly under high kube-apiserver load. ([#134401](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134401), [@macsko](https://github.com/macsko)) [SIG Scheduling]...

- kubeadm now automatically sets the `--pod-infra-container-image` flag when starting the kubelet.

### SIG IBM Cloud

- For statically provisioned PVs, if its volume source is CSI type or it has migrated annotation, when it's deleted, the PersisentVolume controller won't changes its phase to the Failed state.