- The Pod API field `.spec.schedulingGates[*].name` now requires qualified names (like `example.com/mygate`), matching validation for names of `.spec.readinessGates[*].name`. Any uses of the alpha scheduling gate feature prior to 1.27 that do not match that validation must be renamed or deleted before upgrading to 1.27. ([#115821](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115821), [@lianghao208](https://github.com/lianghao208)) [SIG Apps...

Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for the system.
Here's the release [scalability validation report].

[SIG Scalability]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-scalability
[scalability validation report]: https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/releases/release-1.8/scalability_validation_report.md

### SIG Scheduling

- Added fields `reason` and `fieldPath` into CRD validation rules to allow users to specify reason and field path when validation failed. ([#118041](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118041), [@cici37](https://github.com/cici37)) [SIG API Machinery]

  
  If `username.expression` used 'claims.email', then 'claims.email_verified' must have been used in `username.expression` or `extra[*].valueExpression` or `claimValidationRules[*].expression`. An example claim validation rule expression that matches the validation automatically applied when `username.claim` is set to 'email' is 'claims.?email_verified.orValue(true)'.
   ([#123737](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123737), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

that workloads (e.g. Deployments, DaemonSets, etc.) which used `PersistentDisk` volumes were using them in read-only mode.  This validation provided very little value at relatively host implementation cost, and will no longer be validated.  If this is a problem for a specific use-case, please set the `SkipReadOnlyValidationGCE` gate to false to re-enable the validation, and file a Kubernetes bug with details. ([#121083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121083), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))...

- github.com/getkin/kin-openapi: [v0.76.0](https://github.com/getkin/kin-openapi/tree/v0.76.0)
- github.com/go-ozzo/ozzo-validation: [v3.5.0+incompatible](https://github.com/go-ozzo/ozzo-validation/tree/v3.5.0)
- github.com/golang/freetype: [e2365df](https://github.com/golang/freetype/tree/e2365df)