- `Scheduler` now registers event handlers dynamically. ([#101394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101394), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
- `kubectl`: Enable using protocol buffers to request Metrics API. ([#102039](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102039), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

### Documentation

- Kube-apiserver: multiple comma-separated protocols in a single X-Stream-Protocol-Version header are now recognized, in addition to multiple headers, complying with RFC2616 ([#89857](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89857), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu)) [SIG API Machinery]

- This code change fixes the bug that UDP services would trigger unnecessary LoadBalancer updates. The root cause is that a field not working for non-TCP protocols is considered.
  ref: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-azure/pull/1090 ([#107981](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107981), [@lzhecheng](https://github.com/lzhecheng))

- go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/github.com/emicklei/go-restful/otelrestful: v0.20.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/propagators: v0.20.0
- google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc: v1.1.0

### Changed
- bitbucket.org/bertimus9/systemstat: 0eeff89 → v0.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go: v0.81.0 → v0.97.0

    * Introduce Alpha field `AllowWatchBookmarks` in ListOptions for requesting watch bookmarks from apiserver. The implementation in apiserver is hidden behind feature gate `WatchBookmark` (currently in Alpha stage).
* Override protocol between etcd server and kube-apiserver on master with HTTPS instead HTTP when mTLS is enabled in GCE ([#74690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74690), [@wenjiaswe](https://github.com/wenjiaswe))

- AWS ELB health checks will now use HTTPS/SSL protocol for HTTPS/SSL backends. ([#70309](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70309), [@2rs2ts](https://github.com/2rs2ts))

### Azure

- github.com/envoyproxy/go-control-plane: [v0.10.3 → v0.11.1](https://github.com/envoyproxy/go-control-plane/compare/v0.10.3...v0.11.1)
- github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate: [v0.9.1 → v1.0.2](https://github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate/compare/v0.9.1...v1.0.2)
- github.com/evanphx/json-patch: [v5.6.0+incompatible → v4.12.0+incompatible](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch/compare/v5.6.0...v4.12.0)

  * Avoid spurious ELB listener recreation - ignore case when matching protocol ([#47391](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47391), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))

- github.com/envoyproxy/go-control-plane: [49ff273 → 9239064](https://github.com/envoyproxy/go-control-plane/compare/49ff273...9239064)
- github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate: [v0.1.0 → v0.10.1](https://github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate/compare/v0.1.0...v0.10.1)
- github.com/golang/glog: [v1.0.0 → v1.1.0](https://github.com/golang/glog/compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0)