- Added apiserver.latency.k8s.io/apf-queue-wait annotation to the audit log
  to record the time spent waiting in APF queue. ([#123919](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123919), [@hakuna-matatah](https://github.com/hakuna-matatah))

  //
  // Pending: The pod has been accepted by the Kubernetes system, but one or more of the
  // container images has not been created. This includes time before being scheduled as
  // well as time spent downloading images over the network, which could take a while.
  // Running: The pod has been bound to a node, and all of the containers have been created.

- Faster mount detection for linux kernel 5.10+ using openat2 speeding up pod churn rates. On Kernel versions less 5.10, it will fallback to using the original way of detecting mount points i.e by parsing /proc/mounts. ([#109217](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109217), [@manugupt1](https://gi...

*   Grappler:
    *   Disable default Grappler optimization timeout to make the optimization
        pipeline deterministic. This may lead to increased model loading time,
        because time spent in graph optimizations is now unbounded (was 20
        minutes).
*   Deterministic Op Functionality (enabled by setting `TF_DETERMINISTIC_OPS` to
    `"true"` or `"1"`):
    *   Add a deterministic GPU implementation of