message ReplicationControllerSpec {
  // Replicas is the number of desired replicas.
  // This is a pointer to distinguish between explicit zero and unspecified.
  // Defaults to 1.
  // More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/replicationcontroller#what-is-a-replicationcontroller
  // +optional
  optional int32 replicas = 1;

- `scheduler`: handling of unschedulable pods because a `ResourceClass` is missing
  is a bit more efficient and no longer relies on periodic retries. ([#120213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120213), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

## Dependencies

### Added
- cloud.google.com/go/dataproc/v2: v2.0.1

* Bound cloud allocator to 10 retries with 100 ms delay between retries. ([#61375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61375), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))
* Respect fstype in Windows for azure disk ([#61267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61267), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- When scaling down a ReplicaSet, delete doubled up replicas first, where a "doubled up replica" is defined as one that is on the same node as an active replica belonging to a related ReplicaSet.  ReplicaSets are considered "related" if they have a common controller (typically a Deployment). ([#80004](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80004),...

### Feature

- A new client side metric `rest_client_request_retries_total` has been added that tracks the number of retries sent to the server, partitioned by status code, verb and host ([#108396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108396), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

- Added a feature that allows a `StatefulSet` to start numbering replicas from an arbitrary non-negative ordinal, using the `.spec.ordinals.start` field. ([#112744](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112744), [@pwschuurman](https://github.com/pwschuurman))

- Set ProcMountType feature to disabled by default, to follow the lead of UserNamespacesSupport (which it relies on). ([#126291](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126291), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander)) [SIG Node]

* kubectl: improves compatibility with older servers when creating/updating API objects ([#61949](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61949), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Bound cloud allocator to 10 retries with 100 ms delay between retries. ([#61375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61375), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))

<p>
A value <code>x</code> of type <code>V</code> is <i>assignable</i> to a <a href="#Variables">variable</a> of type <code>T</code>
("<code>x</code> is assignable to <code>T</code>") if one of the following conditions applies:
</p>

<ul>
<li>
<code>V</code> and <code>T</code> are identical.
</li>
<li>
<code>V</code> and <code>T</code> have identical
<a href="#Underlying_types">underlying types</a>

- The `client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1` ExecCredential has been removed. If you are using a client-go credential plugin that relies on the v1alpha1 API please contact the distributor of your plugin for instructions on how to migrate to the v1 API. ([#108616](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108616), [@margocrawf](https://github.com/margocrawf))