* Federation can now be deployed using the `federation/deploy/deploy.sh` script. This script does not depend on any of the development environment shell library/scripts. This is an alternative to the current `federation-up.sh`/`federation-down.sh` scripts. Both the scripts are going to co-exist in this release, but the `federation-up.sh`/`federation-down.sh` scripts might be removed in a future release in favor of `federation/deploy/deploy.sh`...

- A deprecated flag `--pod-max-in-unschedulable-pods-duration` was initially planned to be removed in v1.26, but we had to change this plan. We found [an issue](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/110175) in which Pods can be stuck in the unschedulable pod pool for 5 min, and using this flag is the only workaround for this issue. 

* Federation can now be deployed using the `federation/deploy/deploy.sh` script. This script does not depend on any of the development environment shell library/scripts. This is an alternative to the current `federation-up.sh`/`federation-down.sh` scripts. Both the scripts are going to co-exist in this release, but the `federation-up.sh`/`federation-down.sh` scripts might be removed in a future release in favor of `federation/deploy/deploy.sh`...