- A new kubelet command line option, `--reserved-cpus`, is introduced to explicitly define the CPU list that will be reserved for system. For example, if `--reserved-cpus=0,1,2,3` is specified, then cpu 0,1,2,3 will be reserved for the system.  On a system with 24 CPUs, the user may specify `isolcpus=4-23` for the kernel option and use CPU 4-23 for the user containers. ([#83592](ht...

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- The `PersistentVolumeLabel` admission controller in the API server is deprecated.

  - The replacement is running a cloud-specific controller-manager (often referred to as `cloud-controller-manager`) with the `PersistentVolumeLabel` controller enabled. This new controller loop operates as the `PersistentVolumeLabel` admission controller did in previous versions.

### SIG Windows

-	`kubelet --system-reserved` and `--kube-reserved` are supported now on Windows nodes ([#69960](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69960), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

`--enforce-node-allocatable` with a default value of `pods` is added which will make kubelet create a top level cgroup for all pods to enforce Node Allocatable. Optionally, `system-reserved` & `kube-reserved` values can also be specified separated by comma to enforce node allocatable on cgroups specified via `--system-reserved-cgroup` & `--kube-reserved-cgroup` respectively. Note the default value of the latter flags are "". ([#41234](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41234), [@vishh](https://github.com/vishh))...

- kubelet now accepts `pid=<number>` in the `--system-reserved` and `--kube-reserved` options to ensure that the specified number of process IDs will be reserved for the system as a whole and for Kubernetes system daemons respectively.  Please reference `Kube Reserved` and `System Reserved` in `Reserve Compute Resources for System Daemons` in the Kubernetes documentation for general discussion of resource reservation. ...

- QueueingHint implementation for NodeAffinity is reverted because we found potential scenarios where events that make Pods schedulable could be missed. ([#122285](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122285), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling]

- 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

nodes by available storage capacity. It's in alpha and disabled by default. The `VolumeCapacityPriority` alpha feature was replaced with this, and the default behavior was changed. The `VolumeCapacityPriority` preferred a node with the least allocatable, but the `StorageCapacityScoring` preferred a node with the maximum allocatable. See [KEP-4049](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/sig-storage/4049-storage-capacity-scoring-of-nodes-for-dynamic-provisioning/README.md) for details....

- Introduced compressible resource setting on system reserved and kube reserved slices. ([#125982](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125982), [@harche](https://github.com/harche))