- Added new option to the `InterPodAffinity` scheduler plugin to ignore existing
  pods` preferred inter-pod affinities if the incoming pod has no preferred inter-pod
  affinities. This option can be used as an optimization for higher scheduling throughput
  (at the cost of an occasional pod being scheduled non-optimally/violating existing
  pods preferred inter-pod affinities). To enable this scheduler option, set the

- Ignore context canceled from validate and mutate webhook ([#120155](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120155), [@divyasri537](https://github.com/divyasri537)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Kubeadm: fix nil pointer when etcd member is already removed ([#120010](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120010), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## Dependencies

### Added

* Add a persistent volume label controller to the cloud-controller-manager ([#44680](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44680), [@rrati](https://github.com/rrati))
* Tainted nodes by conditions as following: ([#49257](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49257), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))
          * 'node.kubernetes.io/network-unavailable=:NoSchedule' if NetworkUnavailable is true

- Ignore context canceled from validate and mutate webhook ([#120017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120017), [@divyasri537](https://github.com/divyasri537)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Kubeadm: fix nil pointer when etcd member is already removed ([#120013](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120013), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Ignore context canceled from validate and mutate webhook ([#120019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120019), [@divyasri537](https://github.com/divyasri537)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Kubeadm: fix nil pointer when etcd member is already removed ([#120012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120012), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- `kubeadm`: fixed `nil` pointer when `etcd` member is already removed. ([#119753](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119753), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- `kubeadm`: fixed the bug where `--image-repository` flag is missing for some init