- Profiling can now be served on a unix-domain socket by using the `--profiling-path` option (when profiling is enabled) for security purposes. ([#114191](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114191), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Scheduling

  - Opaque Integer Resources (OIRs) are deprecated and will be removed in
    version 1.9. Extended Resources (ERs) are a drop-in replacement for OIRs. You can use
    any domain name prefix outside of the `kubernetes.io/` domain instead of the
    `pod.alpha.kubernetes.io/opaque-int-resource-` prefix.

## Notable Features

### Workloads API (apps/v1beta2)

- Kubelet: added log for volume metric collection taking too long ([#107490](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107490), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- Kubelet: added retry of checking Unix domain sockets on Windows nodes for the plugin registration mechanism. ([#110075](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110075), [@luckerby](https://github.com/luckerby))