- Improved Node's QueueingHint in the `NodeAffinity` plugin by ignoring unrelated changes that keep pods unschedulable. ([#127444](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127444), [@dom4ha](https://github.com/dom4ha)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

- `kubeadm join` fails if file-based discovery is too long, with a default timeout of 5 minutes. ([#80804](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80804), [@olivierlemasle](https://github.com/olivierlemasle))
- kubeadm: fixed ignoring errors when pulling control plane images ([#80529](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80529), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))

* kubectl apply --prune supports CronJob resource.  ([#62991](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62991), [@tomoe](https://github.com/tomoe))
* Label ExternalEtcdClientCertificates can be used for ignoring all preflight check issues related to client certificate files for external etcd. ([#64269](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64269), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))

	to <code>T</code>.
	</li>
	<li>
	ignoring struct tags (see below),
	<code>x</code>'s type and <code>T</code> are not
	<a href="#Type_parameter_declarations">type parameters</a> but have
	<a href="#Type_identity">identical</a> <a href="#Underlying_types">underlying types</a>.
	</li>
	<li>
	ignoring struct tags (see below),
	<code>x</code>'s type and <code>T</code> are pointer types

* Bump cluster autoscaler to v0.5.4, which fixes scale down issues with pods ignoring SIGTERM. ([#45483](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45483), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))

* Bump cluster autoscaler to v0.5.4, which fixes scale down issues with pods ignoring SIGTERM. ([#45483](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45483), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))

- Fixed an issue where failed pods associated with a job with `parallelism = 1` are recreated by the job controller honoring exponential backoff delay again. However, for jobs with `parallelism > 1`, pods might be created without exponential backoff delay. ([#114516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114516), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita))

- Updated Windows `kube-proxy` to align with Linux behavior by correctly honoring the port specified in `EndpointSlice` for internal traffic routing. ([#132647](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132647), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network and Windows]

- Failed pods associated with a job with `parallelism = 1` are recreated by the job controller honoring exponential backoff delay again. However, for jobs with `parallelism > 1`, pods might be created without exponential backoff delay. ([#115020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115020), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita)) [SIG Apps]...

- Kube-apiserver: Fixes a 1.31 regression that stopped honoring build ID overrides with the --version flag ([#126670](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126670), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]