- The scheduler skips the `InterPodAffinity` Score plugin when nothing to do with the Pod.
  It will affect some metrics values related to the InterPodAffinity Score plugin. ([#117794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117794), [@utam0k](https://github.com/utam0k)) [SIG Scheduling]

### API Change

- The Scheduler did not run the plugin Score method when its PreScore method returned a Skip status. In other words, the PreScore/Score plugin could return a Skip status in PreScore if the plugin did nothing in Score for that Pod. ([#115652](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115652), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))

- Scheduler skips NodeAffinity Score plugin when NodeAffinity Score plugin has nothing to do with a Pod.

- Pod Affinity/AntiAffinity label selectors are now validated in the pod affinity score plugin ([#93758](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93758), [@damemi](https://github.com/damemi)) [SIG Scheduling]

    * Function is disabled by default and can be enabled via scheduler policy config file.
    * If no parametrization is specified in config file it defaults to one which gives score 10 to utilization 0 and score 0 to utilization 100.

- Changed OOM score adjustment calculation for sidecar containers: the OOM adjustment for these containers will match or fall below the OOM score adjustment of regular containers in the Pod. ([#128029](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128029), [@bouaouda-achraf](https://github.com/bouaouda-achraf))

- Kube-scheduler now falls back to emitting events using core/v1 Events when events.k8s.io/v1beta1 is disabled. ([#83692](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83692), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

- The `StorageCapacityScoring` feature gate was added to score nodes by available storage capacity. It's in alpha and disabled by default. The `VolumeCapacityPriority` alpha feature was replaced with this, and the default behavior was changed. The `VolumeCapacityPriority` preferred a node with the least allocatable,...

*   A new priority function ResourceLimitsPriorityMap (disabled by default and behind alpha feature gate and not part of the scheduler's default priority functions list) that assigns a lowest possible score of 1 to a node that satisfies one or both of input pod's cpu and memory limits, mainly to break ties between nodes with same scores. ([#55906](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55906),[ @aveshagarwal](https://github.com/aveshagarwal))