- Replace scale down forbidden window with scale down stabilization window. Rather than waiting a fixed period of time between scale downs HPA now scales down to the highest recommendation it during the scale down stabilization window. ([#68122](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68122), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))...

  without risking breaking old clients, such as controllers.

- `kubectl delete` no longer scales down workload API objects before deletion.
  Users who depend on ordered termination for the Pods of their StatefulSets
  must use `kubectl scale` to scale down the StatefulSet before deletion.

- `kubectl run --env` no longer supports CSV parsing. To provide multiple environment

- Fixed a 1.28.0 regression where kube-controller-manager can crash when StatefulSet with Parallel policy and PVC labels is scaled up. ([#121184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121184), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska)) [SIG Apps]

* The ability to use kubectl scale jobs is deprecated. All other scale operations remain in place, but the ability to scale jobs will be removed in a future release.  ([#60139](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60139), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

* Fix potential panic when getting azure load balancer status ([#68609](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68609), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* [fluentd-gcp-scaler addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to 0.4 to pick up security fixes. ([#67691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67691), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

- From now on, the HPA controller will return an error for the container resource metrics when the feature gate "HPAContainerMetrics" is disabled. As a result, HPA with a container resource metric performs no scale-down and performs only scale-up based on other metrics. ([#116043](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116043), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Autoscaling]

* [GCE] Enable by default audit logging truncating backend. ([#68342](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68342), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))
* [fluentd-gcp-scaler addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to 0.4 to pick up security fixes. ([#67691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67691), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

* [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.2 to pick up security fixes. ([#76762](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76762), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

which is an integer.
        * ScaleRef of type SubresourceReference in HorizontalPodAutoscalerSpec which
referred to scale subresource of the resource being scaled was replaced by
ScaleTargetRef which points just to the resource being scaled.
        * In extensions/v1beta1 if CPUUtilization in HorizontalPodAutoscalerSpec was not
specified it was set to 80 by default while in autoscaling/v1 HPA object

* [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.2 to pick up security fixes. ([#76762](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76762), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))