- Scheduler framework permit plugins now run at the end of the scheduling cycle, after reserve plugins. Waiting on permit will remain in the beginning of the binding cycle. ([#88199](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88199), [@mateuszlitwin](https://github.com/mateuszlitwin)) [SIG Scheduling]

- In a scheduler with `Permit` plugins, when a Pod is rejected during `WaitOnPermit`, the scheduler records the plugin.

- Filter plugin for cloud provider storage predicate ([#84148](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84148), [@gongguan](https://github.com/gongguan))
- Refactor scheduler's framework permit API. ([#83756](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83756), [@hex108](https://github.com/hex108))

* Adds support for CNI ConfigLists, which permit plugin chaining. ([#42202](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42202), [@squeed](https://github.com/squeed))

- Add --permit-address-sharing flag to `kube-apiserver` to listen with `SO_REUSEADDR`. While allowing to listen on wildcard IPs like 0.0.0.0 and specific IPs in parallel, it avoids waiting for the kernel to release socket in `TIME_WAIT` state, and hence, considerably...

- Users can now traverse all the pods that are in the scheduler and waiting in the permit stage through method `IterateOverWaitingPods`. In other words,  all waitingPods in scheduler can be obtained from any profiles. Before this commit, each profile could only obtain `waitingPods` within that profile ([#122946](https://github.com/kub...

- Implement the scheduling framework with `Reserve`, `Prebind`, `Permit`, `Post-bind`, `Queue sort` and `Unreserve` extension points.
([#77567](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77567), [@wgliang](https://github.com/wgliang))

- Users can traverse all the pods that are in the scheduler and waiting in the permit stage through method `IterateOverWaitingPods`. In other words,  all waitingPods in scheduler can be obtained from any profiles. Before this commit, each profile could only obtain waitingPods within that profile. ([#124926](https://github.com/kube...

* kubelet `--cert-dir` now defaults to `/var/lib/kubelet/pki`, in order to ensure bootstrapped and rotated certificates persist beyond a reboot. resolves an issue in kubeadm with false-positive `/var/lib/kubelet is not empty` message during pre-flight checks ([#53317](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53317), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fixed a bug where kube-apiserver could emit a subsequent watch event even if the previous event failed to decrypt and was not emitted. ([#131020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131020), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery and Etcd]