* You can remove the "old" taints (stored internally as annotations) at any time after the upgrade by doing `kubectl annotate nodes <node name> scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/taints-` (note the minus at the...

- DRA device taints: `DeviceTaintRule` status provides information about the rule, including whether Pods still need to be evicted (`EvictionInProgress` condition). The newly added `None` effect can be used to preview what a `DeviceTaintRule` would do if it used the `NoExecute` effect and to taint devices (`device health`) without immediately affecting scheduling or running Pods. ([#134152](https://gith...

- A new `TaintNodesByCondition` admission plugin taints newly created Node objects as "not ready", to fix a race condition that could cause pods to be scheduled on new nodes before their taints were updated to accurately reflect their reported conditions. This admission plugin is enabled by default if the `TaintNodesByCondition` feature is enabled. ([#73097](https://gi...

* Add RequestedToCapacityRatioPriority priority function. Function is parametrized with set of points mapping node utilization (0-100) to score (0-10). ([#63929](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63929), [@losipiuk](https://github.com/losipiuk))
    * Function is linear between points. Resource utilization is defined as one minus ratio of total amount of resource requested by pods on node and node's capacity (scaled to 100).

* Add support for running GCI on the GCE cloud provider ([#25425](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25425), [@andyzheng0831](https://github.com/andyzheng0831))
* Implement taints and tolerations ([#24134](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24134), [@kevin-wangzefeng](https://github.com/kevin-wangzefeng))

* fixes a panic applying json patches containing out of bounds operations ([#64355](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64355), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Fixed NoTaintMaster to remove master taint and keep all other applied taints.  ([#64986](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64986), [@ashleyschuett](https://github.com/ashleyschuett))

* A new `TaintNodesByCondition` admission plugin taints newly created Node objects as "not ready", to fix a race condition that could cause pods to be scheduled on new nodes before their taints were updated to accurately reflect their reported conditions. This admission plugin is enabled by default if the `TaintNodesByCondition` feature is enabled. ([#73097](https://gi...

- E2e framework: the `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint has been removed from the default value of `--non-blocking-taints` flag. You may need to set `--non-blocking-taints` explicitly if the cluster to be tested has nodes with the deprecated `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint. ([#118510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118510), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Testing]

**Affected Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.31.0 - v1.31.11
  - kube-apiserver v1.32.0 - v1.32.7
  - kube-apiserver v1.33.0 - v1.33.3

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.31.12

  - The taint applied to control-plane nodes "node-role.kubernetes.io/master:NoSchedule" is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release after a GA deprecation period.
  - Apply toleration for a new, future taint "node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane:NoSchedule" to the kubeadm CoreDNS / kube-dns managed manifests. Note that this taint is not yet applied to kubeadm control-plane nodes.