Eugene Kuznetsov, Evgeniy Zheltonozhskiy, Ewout Ter Hoeven, exfalso, FAIJUL,
Fangjun Kuang, Fei Hu, Frank Laub, Frederic Bastien, Fredrik Knutsson, frreiss,
Frédéric Rechtenstein, fsx950223, Gaurav Singh, gbaned, George Grzegorz
Pawelczak, George Sterpu, Gian Marco Iodice, Giorgio Arena, Hans Gaiser, Hans
Pabst, Haoyu Wu, Harry Slatyer, hsahovic, Hugo, Hugo Sjöberg, IrinaM21, jacco,
Jake Tae, Jean-Denis Lesage, Jean-Michel Gorius, Jeff Daily, Jens Elofsson,

- Switch scheduler to generate the merge patch on pod status instead of the full pod ([#103133](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103133), [@marwanad](https://github.com/marwanad)) [SIG Scheduling]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v4: v4.0.3 → v4.1.2

### Removed
_Nothing has changed._

                            Determines how the patch should be applied.

                            Valid Options: MERGE, ADD, REMOVE, INSERT_BEFORE, INSERT_AFTER, INSERT_FIRST, REPLACE
                          enum:
                          - INVALID
                          - MERGE
                          - ADD
                          - REMOVE
                          - INSERT_BEFORE