- Kube-scheduler implements scheduling hints for the VolumeZone plugin.
  The scheduling hints allow the scheduler to only retry scheduling a Pod

- DRA: Restricted the length of opaque device configuration parameters. At admission time, Kubernetes enforces a 10KiB size limit. ([#128601](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128601), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Etcd, Node, Scheduling and Testing]

- Ensured that non-scheduling related errors (e.g., network errors) did not lengthen the Pod scheduling backoff time. ([#128748](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128748), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]
- Executed API calls dispatched during pod scheduling asynchronously if the `SchedulerAsyncAPICalls` feature gate was enabled.

- Revised scheduling behavior to correctly handle nominated node changes. Trigger rescheduling of pods 
if necessary when pods with nominated node names got deleted or nominated on a different node. ([#129058](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129058), [@dom4ha](https://github.com/dom4ha)) [SIG Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

     */
    public RC4(final byte[] key) {
        init(key, 0, key.length);
    }

    /**
     * Initializes the RC4 cipher with a key.
     * This method sets up the RC4 state array using the key scheduling algorithm.
     *
     * @param key the key array
     * @param ki the starting offset in the key array
     * @param klen the length of the key to use
     */

      when {
        // We have a task ready to go. Get ready.
        readyTask != null -> {
          beforeRun(readyTask)

          // Also start another thread if there's more work or scheduling to do.
          if (multipleReadyTasks || !coordinatorWaiting && readyQueues.isNotEmpty()) {
            startAnotherThread()
          }

          return readyTask
        }

  //   similar purposes.
  // * We want to behave reasonably for timeouts of 0
  // * We are more responsive to completion than timeouts. This is because parkNanos depends on
  //   system scheduling and as such we could either miss our deadline, or unpark() could be delayed
  //   so that it looks like we timed out even though we didn't. For comparison FutureTask respects

  //   similar purposes.
  // * We want to behave reasonably for timeouts of 0
  // * We are more responsive to completion than timeouts. This is because parkNanos depends on
  //   system scheduling and as such we could either miss our deadline, or unpark() could be delayed
  //   so that it looks like we timed out even though we didn't. For comparison FutureTask respects

 * the life cycle methods.
 *
 * <h3>Usage Example</h3>
 *
 * <p>Here is a sketch of a service which crawls a website and uses the scheduling capabilities to
 * rate limit itself.
 *
 * {@snippet :
 * class CrawlingService extends AbstractScheduledService {
 *   private Set<Uri> visited;
 *   private Queue<Uri> toCrawl;

 * the life cycle methods.
 *
 * <h3>Usage Example</h3>
 *
 * <p>Here is a sketch of a service which crawls a website and uses the scheduling capabilities to
 * rate limit itself.
 *
 * {@snippet :
 * class CrawlingService extends AbstractScheduledService {
 *   private Set<Uri> visited;
 *   private Queue<Uri> toCrawl;