*   A new priority function ResourceLimitsPriorityMap (disabled by default and behind alpha feature gate and not part of the scheduler's default priority functions list) that assigns a lowest possible score of 1 to a node that satisfies one or both of input pod's cpu and memory limits, mainly to break ties between nodes with same scores. ([#55906](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55906),[ @aveshagarwal](https://github.com/aveshagarwal))...

* Priority admission controller picks a global default with the lowest priority value if more than one such default PriorityClass exists. ([#59991](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59991), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

- Fixed relative CPU priority for pods where containers explicitly request zero cpu by giving the lowest priority instead of falling back to the cpu limit to avoid possible cpu starvation of other pods. ([#108832](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108832), [@waynepeking348](https://github.com/waynepeking348))

- `PidPressure` now evicts pods from lowest priority to highest priority ([#72844](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72844), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

- Scheduler: in 1.29 pre-releases, enabling contextual logging slowed down pod scheduling. ([#121715](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121715), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Instrumentation and Scheduling]

- Revised `OpenAPI v2` fetching for CustomResourceDefinitions. CRDs are now aggregated lazily,
  which improves resource usage during installation of many CRDs. As a result, the first request
  to fetch the OpenAPI may be slower. ([#118808](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118808), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree))

- Kubeadm: increase robustness for "kubeadm join" when adding etcd members on slower setups ([#90645](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90645), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

 - Kubeadm: increase robustness for "kubeadm join" when adding etcd members on slower setups ([#90645](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90645), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Enhanced the daemonset sync logic to avoid a problem where pods are thought to be unavailable when the controller's clock is slower than the node's clock. ([#77208](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77208), [@DaiHao](https://github.com/DaiHao))

* AWS now checks for validity of ecryption key when creating encrypted volumes. Dynamic provisioning of encrypted volume may get slower due to these checks. ([#65223](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65223), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))