- Added new option to the `InterPodAffinity` scheduler plugin to ignore existing
  pods` preferred inter-pod affinities if the incoming pod has no preferred inter-pod
  affinities. This option can be used as an optimization for higher scheduling throughput
  (at the cost of an occasional pod being scheduled non-optimally/violating existing
  pods preferred inter-pod affinities). To enable this scheduler option, set the

- User can now use component config to configure NodeLabel plugin for the scheduler framework. ([#84297](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84297), [@liu-cong](https://github.com/liu-cong))
- Optimize inter-pod affinity preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution type, up to 4x in some cases. ([#84264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84264), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g))

## Deprecations

This section provides an overview of deprecated API versions, options, flags, and arguments. Deprecated means that we intend to remove the capability from a future release. After removal, the capability will no longer work. The sections are organized by SIGs.

### Apps

- Add improved load balancer naming.

### SIG-scheduling

SIG Scheduling development efforts have been primarily focused on improving performance and reliability of the scheduler.
- Performance of the inter-pod affinity/anti-affinity feature is improved over 100X via algorithmic optimization.

* The GitRepo volume type is deprecated. To provision a container with a git repo, mount an `EmptyDir` into an `InitContainer` that clones the repo using git, then mount the `EmptyDir` into the Pod's container.
([#63445](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63445), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

* fix cinder volume dir umount issue [#24717](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24717) ([#24718](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24718), [@chengyli](https://github.com/chengyli))
* Inter pod topological affinity and anti-affinity implementation ([#22985](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/22985), [@kevin-wangzefeng](https://github.com/kevin-wangzefeng))

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Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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- github.com/go-kit/log: [v0.1.0](https://github.com/go-kit/log/tree/v0.1.0)
- github.com/gofrs/uuid: [v4.0.0+incompatible](https://github.com/gofrs/uuid/tree/v4.0.0)
- github.com/josharian/intern: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/josharian/intern/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/jpillora/backoff: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/jpillora/backoff/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/nxadm/tail: [v1.4.4](https://github.com/nxadm/tail/tree/v1.4.4)

* Loadbalanced client src ip preservation enters beta ([#33957](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33957), [@bprashanth](https://github.com/bprashanth))

SIG Windows is also including several addition to this release:
 - Direct Server Return (DSR) mode support, allowing large numbers of services to scale up efficiently