- Fixed incorrect behavior of preemptor pod when preemption of the victim takes long to complete. The preemptor pod should not be circling in scheduling cycles until preemption is finished. ([#134294](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134294), [@ania-borowiec](https://github.com/ania-borowiec)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

- Fixed a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126644](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126644), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

- Fixed a bug in kube-scheduler where pending pod preemption caused preemptor pods to be retried more frequently. ([#134247](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134247), [@macsko](https://github.com/macsko)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126691), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Graduated the asynchronous preemption feature in the scheduler to beta. 
  Now the feature flag (SchedulerAsyncPreemption) is enabled by default. ([#130550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130550), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling]

        .request(proxyConnectRequest)
        .protocol(Protocol.HTTP_1_1)
        .code(HttpURLConnection.HTTP_PROXY_AUTH)
        .message("Preemptive Authenticate")
        .sentRequestAtMillis(-1L)
        .receivedResponseAtMillis(-1L)
        .header("Proxy-Authenticate", "OkHttp-Preemptive")
        .build()

    val authenticatedRequest =
      route.address.proxyAuthenticator

          assertThat(response.request.url.host).isEqualTo("android.com")
          val challenges = response.challenges()
          assertThat(challenges[0].scheme).isEqualTo("OkHttp-Preemptive")
          response.request
            .newBuilder()
            .header("Proxy-Authorization", credential)
            .build()
        }.build()