- Implement changes to prevent pod scheduling to a node without CSI driver ([#135012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135012), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG API Machinery, Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

- Kube-scheduler implements scheduling hints for the VolumeZone plugin.
  The scheduling hints allow the scheduler to only retry scheduling a Pod

- Fix a bug that Pods with topologySpreadConstraints get scheduled to nodes without required labels. ([#95883](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95883), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Fixed a 1.27 scheduling regression that PostFilter plugin may not function if previous PreFilter plugins return Skip ([#119942](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119942), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

- Kube-scheduler implements scheduling hints for the NodeAffinity plugin.
  The scheduling hints allow the scheduler to only retry scheduling a Pod
  that was previously rejected by the NodeAffinity plugin if a new Node or a Node update matches the Pod's node affinity. ([#119155](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119155), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Ensured that non-scheduling related errors (e.g., network errors) did not lengthen the Pod scheduling backoff time. ([#128748](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128748), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]
- Executed API calls dispatched during pod scheduling asynchronously if the `SchedulerAsyncAPICalls` feature gate was enabled.

- Fixed a 1.26 regression scheduling bug by ensuring that preemption is skipped when a PreFilter plugin returns `UnschedulableAndUnresolvable` ([#119952](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119952), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling]

- DRA: Restricted the length of opaque device configuration parameters. At admission time, Kubernetes enforces a 10KiB size limit. ([#128601](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128601), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Etcd, Node, Scheduling and Testing]

- Revised scheduling behavior to correctly handle nominated node changes. Trigger rescheduling of pods 
if necessary when pods with nominated node names got deleted or nominated on a different node. ([#129058](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129058), [@dom4ha](https://github.com/dom4ha)) [SIG Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

- The legacy scheduler policy config is removed in v1.23, the associated flags policy-config-file, policy-configmap, policy-configmap-namespace and use-legacy-policy-config are also removed. Migrate to Component Config instead, see https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/scheduling/config/ for details. (#105424, @kerthcet) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]