- Removed "endpoint-controller" and "workload-leader-election" FlowSchemas from the default APF configuration.
  

* Use separate client for leader election in scheduler to avoid starving leader election by regular scheduler operations. ([#53793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53793), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Count PVCs that are unbound towards attach limit. ([#73863](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73863), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

### VMware

- SAML token delegation (required for Zones support in vSphere) is now supported ([#78876](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78876), [@dougm](https://github.com/dougm))

* Fix metrics API group name in audit configuration ([#53493](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53493), [@piosz](https://github.com/piosz))
* Use separate client for leader election in scheduler to avoid starving leader election by regular scheduler operations. ([#53793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53793), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

* Use separate client for leader election in scheduler to avoid starving leader election by regular scheduler operations. ([#53793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53793), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Added Coordinated Leader Election as Alpha under the `CoordinatedLeaderElection` feature gate. With the feature enabled, the control plane can use LeaseCandidate objects (coordination.k8s.io/v1alpha1 API group) to participate in a leader election and let the kube-apiserver select the best instance according to some strategy. ([#124012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124012),...

- Fixed a scheduler panic due to internal cache inconsistency ([#71063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71063), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
- Report kube-scheduler unhealthy if leader election is deadlocked. ([#71085](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71085), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

- kubeadm: fixed ignoring errors when pulling control plane images ([#80529](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80529), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))
- Fix a bug in kube-addon-manager's leader election logic that made all replicas active. ([#80575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80575), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

- Updated the default API priority-and-fairness config to avoid endpoint/configmaps operations from controller-manager to all match leader-election priority level. ([#106725](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106725), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Fixes a bug of identifying the correct containerd process. ([#97888](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97888), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- Fixes add-on manager leader election to use leases instead of endpoints, similar to what kube-controller-manager does in 1.20 ([#98968](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98968), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))