- Authentication token cache size is increased (from 4k to 32k) to support clusters with many nodes or many namespaces with active service accounts. ([#83643](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83643), [@lavalamp](https://github.com/lavalamp))

## Changelog since v1.27.14

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Improved scheduling performance when many nodes, and prefilter returns 1-2 nodes (e.g. daemonset)
  

* Reduced the CPU and memory requests for the Metrics Server Nanny sidecar container to free up unused resources.  ([#57252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57252), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))

### DNS
* Updates the dnsmasq cache/mux layer to be managed by dnsmasq-nanny. ([#41826](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41826), [@bowei](https://github.com/bowei))
  dnsmasq-nanny manages dnsmasq based on values from the
  kube-system:kube-dns configmap:
  ```
  "stubDomains": {
  "acme.local": ["1.2.3.4"]
   },
  ```

- kubeadm: remove misleading error message regarding image pulling ([#66658](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66658), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))
- kubeadm: Pull sidecar and dnsmasq-nanny images when using kube-dns ([#66499](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66499), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))

  Previously, when unschedulable Pods are updated, the scheduler always put Pods back to activeQ/backoffQ. But, actually not all updates to Pods make Pods schedulable, especially considering many scheduling constraints nowadays are immutable.

- Improved scheduling performance when many nodes, and prefilter returns 1-2 nodes (e.g. daemonset)
  

## Changelog since v1.28.10

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Improved scheduling performance when many nodes, and prefilter returns 1-2 nodes (e.g. daemonset)
  

* Default behavior in Cinder storageclass is changed. If availability is not specified, the zone is chosen by algorithm. It makes possible to spread stateful pods across many zones. ([#44798](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44798), [@zetaab](https://github.com/zetaab))

- kube-scheduler removed `AzureDiskLimits` ,`CinderLimits` `EBSLimits` and `GCEPDLimits` plugin. Given the corresponding CSI driver reports how many volumes a node can handle in NodeGetInfoResponse, the kubelet stores this limit in CSINode and the scheduler then knows the limit of the driver on the node. Removed plugins AzureDiskLimits, CinderLimits, EBSLimits and GCEPDLimits if you explicitly...