/** How long to wait to retry pre-emptive connection attempts that fail. */
  @JvmField val backoffDelayMillis: Long = 60 * 1000,
  /** How much jitter to introduce in connection retry backoff delays */
  @JvmField val backoffJitterMillis: Int = 100,

- github.com/klauspost/compress: [v1.17.0](https://github.com/klauspost/compress/tree/v1.17.0)
- github.com/lestrrat-go/backoff/v2: [v2.0.8](https://github.com/lestrrat-go/backoff/tree/v2.0.8)
- github.com/lestrrat-go/blackmagic: [v1.0.2](https://github.com/lestrrat-go/blackmagic/tree/v1.0.2)
- github.com/lestrrat-go/httpcc: [v1.0.1](https://github.com/lestrrat-go/httpcc/tree/v1.0.1)

- Added `SchedulerPopFromBackoffQ` feature gate that is in beta and enabled by default. Improved scheduling queue behavior by popping pods from the backoffQ when the activeQ is empty. This allows to process potentially schedulable pods ASAP, eliminating a penalty effect of the backoff queue. ([#130772](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130772), [@macsko](https://github.com/macsko)) [SIG 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]

- github.com/alecthomas/kingpin/v2: [v2.3.2 → v2.4.0](https://github.com/alecthomas/kingpin/compare/v2.3.2...v2.4.0)
- github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4: [v4.2.1 → v4.3.0](https://github.com/cenkalti/backoff/compare/v4.2.1...v4.3.0)
- github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2: [v2.2.0 → v2.3.0](https://github.com/cespare/xxhash/compare/v2.2.0...v2.3.0)

- Fixed a situation when, sometimes, the scheduler incorrectly placed a pod in the `unschedulable` queue instead of the `backoff` queue. This happened when some plugin previously declared the pod as `unschedulable` and then in a later attempt encounters some other error. Scheduling of that pod then got delayed by up to five minutes, after which periodic flushing moved the pod...