* Note that because any taints you might have created with Kubernetes 1.5 can only affect the scheduling of new pods (the `NoExecute` taint effect is introduced in 1.6), neither the master upgrade nor your running `kubectl taint` to re-create the taints will affect pods that are already running.

  It may affect some metrics values related to the `NodeAffinity` Filter plugin. ([#114125](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114125), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))
- Scheduler now skips `InterPodAffinity` Filter plugin when `InterPodAffinity` Filter plugin has nothing to do with a Pod.

- Official support to build kubernetes with docker-machine / remote docker is removed. This change does not affect building kubernetes with docker locally. ([#97935](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97935), [@adeniyistephen](https://github.com/adeniyistephen)) [SIG Release and Testing]

- `--sync-frequency` will not affect the update interval of volumes that use `ConfigMaps`
  or `Secrets` when the `configMapAndSecretChangeDetectionStrategy` is set to `Cache`.

  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]
- The scheduler skips the `PodTopologySpread` Filter plugin if no spread constraints.

- Expand scheduler priority functions and scheduling framework plugins' node score range to [0, 100]. Note: this change is internal and does not affect extender and RequestedToCapacityRatio custom priority, which are still expected to provide a [0, 10] range. ([#83522](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83522), [@draveness](https://github.com/draveness))

### Storage

- Fixed bug where providing a FieldPath to a CRD Validation Rule would erroneously affect the reported field path of other unrelated CRD Validation Rules on the same schema. ([#123475](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123475), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski))

    *   Clients using older endpoints will be unaffected. This change is only at the REST API level and is independent of the default behavior of particular clients (e.g. this does not affect the default for the kubectl `--cascade` flag).
    *   If you upgrade your client-go libs and use the `AppsV1()` interface, please note that the default garbage collection behavior is changed.

### **Auth**

longer crash when a DRA(Dynamic Resource Allocation) driver returns a nil as part of the Node(Un)PrepareResources response instead of an empty struct (Did not affect drivers written in Go, first showed up with a driver written in Rust). returns a nil as part of the Node(Un)PrepareResources response instead of an empty struct (did not affect drivers written in Go, first showed up with a driver written in Rust). ([#124091](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124091), [@bitoku](https://github.com/bitoku))...

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet >= v1.8.0

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kubelet v1.28.4
  - kubelet v1.27.8
  - kubelet v1.26.11
  - kubelet v1.25.16