higher levels of resource utilization and availability.
These features are in alpha. SIG Scheduling also improved the internal APIs for scheduling and made them easier for other components and external schedulers to use.

[SIG Scheduling]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-scheduling

### SIG Storage

- `RetroactiveDefaultStorageClass` feature made stable and enabled by default. ([#118102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118102), [@RomanBednar](https://github.com/RomanBednar))

- `kubeadm`: will now allow deploying a kubelet that is 3 versions older than the version of `kubeadm` (N-3). This aligns with the recent change made by SIG Architecture that extends the support skew between the control plane and kubelets. Tolerate this new kubelet skew for the commands `init`, `join` and `upgrade`. Note that if the `kubeadm` user applies a control plane version that is older than...

- Fixes a regression in the pod binding subresource to honor the `metadata.uid` precondition.
  This allows kube-scheduler to ensure it is assigns node names to the same instances of pods it made scheduling decisions for. ([#116763](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116763), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Added alpha-level support for the SuccessPolicy in Jobs.
   ([#123412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123412), [@tenzen-y](https://github.com/tenzen-y))
- Added the `CEL` library for IP Addresses and CIDRs. This was made available for use starting from version `1.31`.
   ([#121912](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121912), [@JoelSpeed](https://github.com/JoelSpeed))

- Made `apiextensions-apiserver` binary linking static (also affects the deb and rpm packages). ([#114226](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114226), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))