- Added new option to the `InterPodAffinity` scheduler plugin to ignore existing
  pods` preferred inter-pod affinities if the incoming pod has no preferred inter-pod
  affinities. This option can be used as an optimization for higher scheduling throughput
  (at the cost of an occasional pod being scheduled non-optimally/violating existing
  pods preferred inter-pod affinities). To enable this scheduler option, set the

- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/configsources: [v1.3.13](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/tree/internal/configsources/v1.3.13)
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/endpoints/v2: [v2.6.13](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/tree/internal/endpoints/v2/v2.6.13)
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/internal/ini: [v1.8.0](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/tree/internal/ini/v1.8.0)

- github.com/go-kit/log: [v0.1.0](https://github.com/go-kit/log/tree/v0.1.0)
- github.com/gofrs/uuid: [v4.0.0+incompatible](https://github.com/gofrs/uuid/tree/v4.0.0)
- github.com/josharian/intern: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/josharian/intern/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/jpillora/backoff: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/jpillora/backoff/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/nxadm/tail: [v1.4.4](https://github.com/nxadm/tail/tree/v1.4.4)

### Bug or Regression

- Fix counting error in service/nodeport/loadbalancer quota check ([#97830](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97830), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG API Machinery and Network]

- Fixed bug in CPUManager with race on container map access ([#97427](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97427), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska)) [SIG Node]

- github.com/blang/semver: [v3.5.1+incompatible](https://github.com/blang/semver/tree/v3.5.1)
- github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath/internal/testify: [v1.5.1](https://github.com/jmespath/go-jmespath/internal/testify/tree/v1.5.1)
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/internal/retry: v1.10.0



# v1.29.0-rc.2


## Downloads for v1.29.0-rc.2



### Source Code

## Major Themes

Kubernetes is developed by community members whose work is organized into
[Special Interest Groups][]. For the 1.8 release, each SIG provides the
themes that guided their work.

[Special Interest Groups]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md

### SIG API Machinery