- Scheduler no longer runs the plugin's `Filter` method when its `PreFilter` method returned a Skip status.
  In other words, your `PreFilter`/`Filter` plugin can return a Skip status in `PreFilter` if the plugin does nothing in Filter for that Pod.
  Scheduler skips `NodeAffinity` Filter plugin when `NodeAffinity` Filter plugin has nothing to do with a Pod.

- Kubectl/drain: add skip-wait-for-delete-timeout option. If a pod’s  `DeletionTimestamp` is older than N seconds, skip waiting for the pod.  Seconds must be greater than 0 to skip. ([#85577](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85577), [@michaelgugino](https://github.com/michaelgugino)) [SIG CLI]

* This fix prevents a GCE PD volume from being mounted if the udev device link is stale and tries to correct the link. ([#66832](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66832), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))
* skip nodes that have a primary NIC in a 'Failed' provisioningState ([#65412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65412), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

    - [HorizontalPodAutoscaler v2 graduates to GA](#horizontalpodautoscaler-v2-graduates-to-ga)
    - [Generic Ephemeral Volume feature graduates to GA](#generic-ephemeral-volume-feature-graduates-to-ga)
    - [Skip Volume Ownership change graduates to GA](#skip-volume-ownership-change-graduates-to-ga)

- Skip [k8s.io/kubernetes@v1.19.0/test/e2e/storage/testsuites/base.go:162]: Driver azure-disk doesn't support snapshot type DynamicSnapshot -- skipping

### Bug or Regression

- Fix: skip instance not found when decoupling vmss from lb ([#105835](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105835), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- The `--certificate-authority` flag now correctly overrides existing skip-TLS or CA data settings in the kubeconfig file ([#83547](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83547), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
### Cloud Provider

* add external resource group support for azure disk ([#64427](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64427), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* skip nodes that have a primary NIC in a 'Failed' provisioningState ([#65412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65412), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

- Kubeadm: add a new field `skipPhases` to `v1beta3` `InitConfiguration` and `JoinConfiguration` that can contain a list of phases to skip during "kubeadm init" and "kubeadm join". The flag "--skip-phases" takes precedence over this field. ([#101923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101923), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- Kubeadm: during the preflight check "CreateJob" of "kubeadm upgrade", check if there are no nodes where a Pod can schedule. If there are none, show a warning and skip this preflight check. This can happen in single node clusters where the only node was drained. ([#124570](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124570), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]