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  It may affect some metrics values related to the `NodeAffinity` Filter plugin. ([#114125](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114125), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))
- Scheduler now skips `InterPodAffinity` Filter plugin when `InterPodAffinity` Filter plugin has nothing to do with a Pod.

- Kubelet command line flags related to dockershim are now showing deprecation message as they will be removed along with dockershim in future release. ([#98730](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98730), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

  It will affect some metrics values related to the InterPodAffinity Score plugin. ([#117794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117794), [@utam0k](https://github.com/utam0k)) [SIG Scheduling]
- The scheduler skips the `PodTopologySpread` Filter plugin if no spread constraints.

* Fix issues related to the eviction manager.

* Fix inconsistent Prometheus cAdvisor metrics.

* Fix issues related to the local storage allocatable feature.

### Auth

* [GA] The RBAC API group has been promoted from v1beta1 to v1. No API changes were introduced.

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 back into the "active" queue. ([#120334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120334), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Scheduling]

### Other (Cleanup or...

- Fix memory leak in the job controller related to JobTrackingWithFinalizers ([#111723](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111723), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps]

This release also contains a number of bug fixes to the feature set. Aspiring plugin authors can look at [sample-exec-plugin](https://github.com/ankeesler/sample-exec-plugin) as a way to get started.

Related to this topic, the in-tree Azure and GCP authentication plugins have been [deprecated](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102181) in favor of out-of-tree implementations.

### Server-side Apply graduates to GA

- Fix memory leak in the job controller related to JobTrackingWithFinalizers ([#111722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111722), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps]

- Kube-scheduler now retries scheduling Pods rejected by the PodTopologySpread plugin when related Pods are created, deleted, updated, or when a node matches the specified topologyKey. ([#122195](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122195), [@nayihz](https://github.com/nayihz))