- Kubelets perform fewer unnecessary pod status update operations on the API server. ([#88591](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88591), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node and Scalability]

- The scheduler now scores fewer than all nodes in every scheduling cycle. This can improve performance of the scheduler in large clusters. ([#66733](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66733), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat)) Courtesy of SIG Scheduling

- External facing API podresources is now available under k8s.io/kubelet/pkg/apis/ ([#92632](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92632), [@RenaudWasTaken](https://github.com/RenaudWasTaken)) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Fewer candidates are enumerated for preemption to improve performance in large clusters. ([#94814](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94814), [@adtac](https://github.com/adtac))

- Updated creation of `LoadBalancer` services, for there to be fewer AWS security group rules in most cases. ([#112267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112267), [@sjenning](https://github.com/sjenning))

p2 := new([]int)  // p2 points to an uninitialized slice with value nil and length 0
</pre>

<p>
The length of an array literal is the length specified in the literal type.
If fewer elements than the length are provided in the literal, the missing
elements are set to the zero value for the array element type.
It is an error to provide elements with index values outside the index range

Other notable changes include:
* CoreDNS replaces kube-dns as the default DNS provider

- kubeadm commands now print warnings if input YAML documents contain unknown or duplicate fields.
- kubeadm now properly recognizes Docker 18.09.0 and newer, but still treats 18.06 as the default supported version.
- kubeadm now automatically sets the `--pod-infra-container-image` flag when starting the kubelet.

### SIG IBM Cloud

## Deprecations and Removals
- `kubeadm.k8s.io/v1beta1` has been deprecated, you should update your config to use newer non-deprecated API versions. ([#83276](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83276), [@Klaven](https://github.com/Klaven))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

## Changelog since v1.33.0

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Check for newer resize fields when deciding recovery feature's status in kubelet ([#131437](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131437), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage]