### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- In GKE alpha clusters it will be possible to use the service annotation `cloud.google.com/network-tier: Standard` ([#88487](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88487), [@zioproto](https://github.com/zioproto)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed

- 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.

- Fix kubectl diff so it doesn't actually persist patches ([#89795](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89795), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG CLI and Testing]
- Fix: get attach disk error due to missing item in max count table ([#89768](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89768), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

* servicecontroller: Fix node selection logic on initial LB creation ([#45773](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45773), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))
* Fix iSCSI iSER mounting. ([#47281](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47281), [@mtanino](https://github.com/mtanino))

- 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

### **Apps**

*   The `kubernetes.io/created-by` annotation is no longer added to controller-created objects. Use the `metadata.ownerReferences` item with controller set to `true` to determine which controller, if any, owns an object. ([#54445](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54445),[ @crimsonfaith91](https://github.com/crimsonfaith91))

* Tolerate missing watch permission when deleting a resource ([#65370](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65370), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))
* prevents infinite CLI wait on delete when item is recreated ([#66136](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66136), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

  - A server-side apply request that changes an object which has duplicate items in a keyed list, and modifies the duplicated item removes the duplicates and replaces them with the single item contained in the server-side apply request. ([#121575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121575), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))

* 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))

  * Improves performance of Cinder volume attach/detach operations. ([#41785](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41785), [@jamiehannaford](https://github.com/jamiehannaford))

  * Fix iSCSI iSER mounting. ([#47281](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47281), [@mtanino](https://github.com/mtanino))