- Extended resources requested by initContainers which are allocated using an automatic ResourceClaim now match the behavior of legacy device plugins, reusing the same resources requested by later sidecar initContainers or regular containers when possible, to minimize the total number of devices requested by the pod. ([#134882](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134882),...

- Added support for in-place vertical scaling of Pods with sidecars (containers defined within `initContainers` where the `restartPolicy` is set to `Always`). ([#128367](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128367), [@vivzbansal](https://github.com/vivzbansal)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, CLI, Node, Scheduling and Testing]