- The scheduler retries scheduling Pods rejected by PreFilterResult (PreFilter plugins) more appropriately; it now takes events registered in those rejector PreFilter plugins into consideration. ([#122251](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122251), [@olderTaoist](https://github.com/olderTaoist)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

  which the scheduler might miss some updates for the Pods rejected by NodeUnschedulable plugin and put the Pods in the queue for a longer time than needed. ([#127427](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127427), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling]
- Fixes the bug in PodTopologySpread that only happens with QHint enabled, 

- Kube-scheduler now retries scheduling Pods rejected by the PodTopologySpread plugin when related Pods are created, deleted, updated,...

- The scheduling queue didn't notice any extenders' failures, it could miss some cluster events,
  and it could end up Pods rejected by Extenders stuck in unschedulable pod pool in 5min in the worst-case scenario.
  Now, the scheduling queue notices extenders' failures and requeue Pods rejected by Extenders appropriately. ([#122022](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122022), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Kube-apiserver: Avoid unnecessary repeated calls to `admission webhooks` that reject an update or delete request. ([#104182](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104182), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))...

- The scheduling queue didn't notice any extenders' failures, it could miss some cluster events,
  and it could end up Pods rejected by Extenders stuck in unschedulable pod pool in 5min in the worst-case scenario.
  Now, the scheduling queue notices extenders' failures and requeue Pods rejected by Extenders appropriately. ([#122044](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122044), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling]

  command-line arguments.
  
  (When the feature gate is disabled, creating an object with such an invalid
  IP or CIDR value will result in a warning from the API server about the fact

### Other notable changes

* Connections from Pods to Services with 0 endpoints will now ICMP reject immediately, rather than blackhole and timeout. ([#72534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72534), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

- The `rejected` label in `apiserver_admission_webhook_admission_duration_seconds` metrics now properly indicates if the request was rejected. ([#81399](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81399), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw))

* Fix Forward chain default reject policy for IPVS proxier ([#62007](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62007), [@m1093782566](https://github.com/m1093782566))
* fix nsenter GetFileType issue in containerized kubelet ([#62467](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62467), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))