- Fixed a regression since 1.24 in the scheduling framework when overriding MultiPoint plugins (e.g. default plugins).
  The incorrect loop logic might lead to a plugin being loaded multiple times, consequently preventing any Pod from being scheduled, which is unexpected. ([#122370](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122370), [@caohe](https://github.com/caohe)) [SIG Scheduling]

- `ServiceNodeExclusion`, `NodeDisruptionExclusion` and `LegacyNodeRoleBehavior`(locked to false) features have been promoted to GA. 

- [KCCM] drop filtering nodes for the providerID when syncing load balancers, but have changes to the field trigger a re-sync of load balancers. This should ensure that cloud providers which don't specify providerID, can still use the service controller implementation to provision load balancers. ([#117602](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117602), [@alexanderConstantinescu](https://github.com/alexanderConstantinescu))...

* Fix metrics API group name in audit configuration ([#53493](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53493), [@piosz](https://github.com/piosz))
* Use separate client for leader election in scheduler to avoid starving leader election by regular scheduler operations. ([#53793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53793), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Suspend job to GA. The feature gate SuspendJob is locked and will be removed in 1.26. ([#108129](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108129), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g))...

- The `--leader-elect*` CLI args are now honored in scheduler. ([#105915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105915), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

- Client-go: Optimized leaders renewing leases by updating leader lock optimistically without getting the record from the API server first. Also, a new metric `leader_election_slowpath_total` was added to allow users to monitor how many leader elections are updated non-optimistically.
   ([#122069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122069), [@linxiulei](https://github.com/linxiulei))
- Locked the GA feature-gate `ConsistentHTTPGetHandlers` to default.

- github.com/go-openapi/errors: [v0.19.2](https://github.com/go-openapi/errors/tree/v0.19.2)
- github.com/go-openapi/loads: [v0.19.4](https://github.com/go-openapi/loads/tree/v0.19.4)
- github.com/go-openapi/runtime: [v0.19.4](https://github.com/go-openapi/runtime/tree/v0.19.4)
- github.com/go-openapi/spec: [v0.19.5](https://github.com/go-openapi/spec/tree/v0.19.5)

- Kubeadm: graduated the kubeadm specific feature gate `UnversionedKubeletConfigMap` to GA and locked it to `true` by default. The kubelet related ConfigMap and RBAC rules are now locked to have a simplified naming `*kubelet-config` instead of the legacy naming `*kubelet-config-x.yy`, where `x.yy` was the version of the control plane. If you have previously used the old naming format with...

- Fixed a regression since 1.24 in the scheduling framework when overriding MultiPoint plugins (e.g. default plugins).
  The incorrect loop logic might lead to a plugin being loaded multiple times, consequently preventing any Pod from being scheduled, which is unexpected. ([#122371](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122371), [@caohe](https://github.com/caohe)) [SIG Scheduling]

## Dependencies