When the scheduling queue receives a cluster event, before moving each Pod from unschedulable pod pool to activeQ/backoffQ, it will call QueueingHintFn of plugins that rejected each Pod in the previous scheduling cycle.

*   StatefulSet controller now creates a label for each Pod in a StatefulSet. The label is `statefulset.kubernetes.io/pod-name`, where `pod-name` = the name of the Pod. This allows users to create a Service per Pod to expose a connection to individual Pods. ([#55329](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55329),[...

- Kube-proxy iptables: new metric sync_proxy_rules_iptables_total that exposes the number of rules programmed per table in each iteration ([#99653](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99653), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Instrumentation and Network]

- Reporting E2E conformance test results to TestGrid from every cloud provider (in collaboration with SIG Testing & SIG Release)
- Defining minimum required documentation from each cloud provider which includes (in collaboration with SIG Docs):
  - example manifests for the kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, kube-schedule, kubelet, and the cloud-controller-manager

    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-17)
    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-17)
- [Changes](#changes)
  - [What’s New (Major Themes)](#whats-new-major-themes)
    - [Cloud Provider Labels reach General Availability](#cloud-provider-labels-reach-general-availability)
    - [Volume Snapshot Moves to Beta](#volume-snapshot-moves-to-beta)
    - [CSI Migration Beta](#csi-migration-beta)
  - [Known Issues](#known-issues)

* Fixes an issue with RBAC reconciliation that could cause duplicated subjects in some bootstrapped rolebindings on each restart of the API server. ([#53239](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53239), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

`important` is a category. ([#59561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59561), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita))

* Fixed an issue making it possible to create a situation in which two webhooks make it impossible to delete each other. ValidatingWebhooks and MutatingWebhooks will not be called on admission requests for ValidatingWebhookConfiguration and MutatingWebhookConfiguration objects in the admissionregistration.k8s.io group ([#59840](https://github.com/kubernetes/k...

- Number of errors reported to the metric `storage_operation_duration_seconds_count` for emptyDir decreased significantly because previously one error was reported for each projected volume created. ([#117022](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117022), [@mpatlasov](https://github.com/mpatlasov)) [SIG Storage]

* Allow ScaleIO volumes to be provisioned without having to first manually create /dev/disk/by-id path on each kubernetes node (if not already present) ([#66174](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66174), [@ddebroy](https://github.com/ddebroy))

### Serverside Apply - Beta 2