- Made `apiextensions-apiserver` binary linking static (also affects the deb and rpm packages). ([#114226](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114226), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

- Remove the deprecated metrics "scheduling_algorithm_preemption_evaluation_seconds" and "binding_duration_seconds", suggest to use "scheduler_framework_extension_point_duration_seconds" instead. ([#96447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96447), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Scheduling...

  The new feature gate activates a framework for fine-grained filtering of events related to scheduler plugins.
  In this release, no default scheduling plugins make use of the hinting framework, so you should not expect any behavior changes. ([#119328](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119328), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling]

* Change `kubeadm create token` to default to the group that almost everyone will want to use.  The group is system:bootstrappers:kubeadm:default-node-token and is the group that kubeadm sets up, via an RBAC binding, for auto-approval (system:certificates.k8s.io:certificatesigningrequests:nodeclient). ([#53512](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53512), [@jbeda](https://github.com/jbeda))

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- Fix: Route controller should update routes with NodeIP changed ([#116361](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116361), [@lzhecheng](https://github.com/lzhecheng)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fixes a regression in the pod binding subresource to honor the `metadata.uid` precondition.

- Alpha support for field selectors on custom resources has been added. With the `CustomResourceFieldSelectors` feature gate enabled, the CustomResourceDefinition API now allows specifying `selectableFields`. Listing a field there enables filtering custom resources for that CustomResourceDefinition in list or watch requests. ([#122717](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122717), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

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