- DRA: When the prioritized list feature was used in a request and the resulting number of allocated devices exceeded the number of allowed devices per claim, the scheduler aborted the attempt to allocate devices early. Previously, it tried to many different combinations, which could take a long time. ([#130593](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130593), [@mortent](https://github.com/mortent))...

- DRA: when asking for "All" devices on a node, Kubernetes <= 1.32 proceeded to schedule pods onto nodes with no devices by not allocating any devices for those pods. Kubernetes 1.33 changes that to only picking nodes which have at least one device. Users who want the "proceed with scheduling also without devices" semantic can use the upcoming prioritized list feature with one sub-request for "all" devices and a second alternative with "count: 0". ([#129560](https:...

- When scaling down a ReplicaSet, delete doubled up replicas first, where a "doubled up replica" is defined as one that is on the same node as an active replica belonging to a related ReplicaSet.  ReplicaSets are considered "related" if they have a common controller (typically a Deployment). ([#80004](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80004),...

- `Kubelet` no longer creates certain legacy iptables rules by default.

A security issue was discovered in kube-apiserver that could allow node
updates to bypass a Validating Admission Webhook. You are only affected
by this vulnerability if you run a Validating Admission Webhook for Nodes
that denies admission based at least partially on the old state of the
Node object.

**Note**: This only impacts validating admission plugins that rely on old
values in certain fields, and does not impact calls from kubelets that go

- The RuntimeClass API has been added. This feature is in alpha, and the RuntimeClass feature gate must be enabled in order to use it. The RuntimeClass API resource defines different classes of runtimes that may be used to run containers in the cluster. Pods can select a RuntimeClass to use via the RuntimeClassName field. ([#67737](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67737), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))...

* Fix issue where on re-registration of device plugin, `allocatable` was not getting updated. This issue makes devices invisible to the Kubelet if device plugin restarts. Only work-around, if this fix is not there, is to restart the kubelet and then start device plugin. ([#63118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63118), [@vikaschoudhary16](https://gi...

controller manager binary. Additionally we added [aws-k8s-tester](https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra/issues/9814), deployer interface for kubetest, to the test-infra repository. This plugin allowed us to integrate Prow to the 3 subprojects defined above in order to provide CI signal for all 3 features. The CI signal is visible [here](https://testgrid.k8s.io/) under SIG-AWS.

For detailed release notes on the three alpha features from SIG AWS, please refer to the following Changelogs:...

    Potential impacts:

- Improved scheduler performance when no scoring plugins were defined.
   ([#122058](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122058), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska))
- Improved scheduler performance when no scoring plugins were defined.