For more information, see [#53109](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/53109).

## Deprecations

- DRA: Device taints enable DRA drivers or admins to mark device as unusable, which prevents allocating them. Pods may also get evicted at runtime if a device becomes unusable, depending on the severity of the taint and whether the claim tolerates the taint. ([#130447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130447), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Architecture, Auth, Etcd, Instrumentation, Node, Scheduling and Testing]

- Added support for setting controller-manager log level online. ([#104571](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104571), [@h4ghhh](https://github.com/h4ghhh))

- CRI now supports a "runtime_handler" field for RunPodSandboxRequest, used for...

- This PR sets the --cluster-dns flag value to kube-dns service IP whether or not NodeLocal DNSCache is enabled. NodeLocal DNSCache will listen on both the link-local as well as the service IP. ([#84383](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84383), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj))

  * To update a controller's PodSpec to use the field instead of the annotation, use one of the kubectl commands that do update ("kubectl replace" or "kubectl apply" or "kubectl patch") or just delete...

- Added driver-owned fields in `ResourceSlice` to mark whether the device was shareable among multiple resource claims (or requests) and to specify how each capacity could be shared between different requests.

- In a scheduler with `Permit` plugins, when a Pod is rejected during `WaitOnPermit`, the scheduler records the plugin.
  The scheduler will use the record to honor cluster events and queueing `hints registered` for the plugin, to inform whether to retry the pod. ([#119785](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119785), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))

## Urgent Upgrade Notes 

### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

- Added support to the scheduler to start using QueueingHint registered for Pod/Updated event to determine whether unschedulable Pods update make them schedulable, when the feature gate `SchedulerQueueingHints` is enabled.

- Shared informers now correctly propagate whether they are synced or not. Individual informer handlers may now check if they are synced or not (new `HasSynced` method). Library support is added to assist controllers in tracking whether their own work is completed for items in the initial list (`AsyncTracker`). ([#113985](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113985), [@lavalamp]...