- Kubectl/drain: add skip-wait-for-delete-timeout option. If a pod’s  `DeletionTimestamp` is older than N seconds, skip waiting for the pod.  Seconds must be greater than 0 to skip. ([#85577](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85577), [@michaelgugino](https://github.com/michaelgugino)) [SIG CLI]

* kubeadm now produces error during preflight checks if swap is enabled. Users, who can setup kubelet to run in unsupported environment with enabled swap, will be able to skip that preflight check. ([#55399](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55399), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))

is now under 'kubescheduler.config.k8s.io/v1alpha1'.  ([#66916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66916), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx)) Courtesy of SIG Cluster Lifecycle, SIG Scheduling, and SIG Testing
- The flag `--skip-preflight-checks` of kubeadm has been removed. Please use `--ignore-preflight-errors` instead. ([#62727](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62727), [@xiangpengzhao](https://github.com/xiangpengzhao))

- The `--certificate-authority` flag now correctly overrides existing skip-TLS or CA data settings in the kubeconfig file ([#83547](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83547), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
### Cloud Provider

- The scheduler skips the `InterPodAffinity` Score plugin when nothing to do with the Pod.
  It will affect some metrics values related to the InterPodAffinity Score plugin. ([#117794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117794), [@utam0k](https://github.com/utam0k)) [SIG Scheduling]
- The scheduler skips the `PodTopologySpread` Filter plugin if no spread constraints.

* This fix prevents a GCE PD volume from being mounted if the udev device link is stale and tries to correct the link. ([#66832](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66832), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))
* skip nodes that have a primary NIC in a 'Failed' provisioningState ([#65412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65412), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

- Scheduler no longer runs the plugin's `Filter` method when its `PreFilter` method returned a Skip status.
  In other words, your `PreFilter`/`Filter` plugin can return a Skip status in `PreFilter` if the plugin does nothing in Filter for that Pod.
  Scheduler skips `NodeAffinity` Filter plugin when `NodeAffinity` Filter plugin has nothing to do with a Pod.

### Bug or Regression

- Fix: skip instance not found when decoupling vmss from lb ([#105835](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105835), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* add external resource group support for azure disk ([#64427](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64427), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* skip nodes that have a primary NIC in a 'Failed' provisioningState ([#65412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65412), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

* Add a retry when reading a file content from a container ([#35560](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35560), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))
* Skip CLOSE_WAIT e2e test if server is 1.4.5 ([#36404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36404), [@bowei](https://github.com/bowei))