### API Change

- 1. PodAffinityTerm includes a namespaceSelector field to allow selecting eligible namespaces based on their labels. 

  - Kube-scheduler can run more than one scheduling profile. Given a pod, the profile is selected by using its `.spec.schedulerName`. ([#88285](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88285), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps, Scheduling and Testing]

- Improved algorithm for selecting `best` non-preferred hint in the TopologyManager ([#108154](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108154), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska))

- Increase maximum IOPS of AWS EBS io1 volume to current maximum (64,000). ([#90014](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90014), [@jacobmarble](https://github.com/jacobmarble))
- Ipvs: ensure selected scheduler kernel modules are loaded ([#93040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93040), [@cmluciano](https://github.com/cmluciano)) [SIG Network]

  * Fix log spam due to unnecessary status update when node is deleted. ([#45923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45923), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

  * Fix kubelet event recording for selected events. ([#46246](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46246), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))

- `k8s.io/dynamic-resource-allocation`: can now handle a `selected` node which isn't listed
  as `potential` node. ([#120871](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120871), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

- CRI now supports a "runtime_handler" field for RunPodSandboxRequest, used for selecting the runtime configuration to run the sandbox with (alpha feature). ([#67518](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67518), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))

- The job controller back-off logic is now decoupled from workqueue. In case of parallelism > 1, if there are...

### Bug or Regression

* fix nsenter GetFileType issue in containerized kubelet ([#62467](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62467), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Ensure expected load balancer is selected for Azure ([#62450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62450), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))