* kubeadm: explicitly wait for `etcd` to have grown when joining a new control plane ([#72984](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72984), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre))
* Improve efficiency of preemption logic in clusters with many pending pods. ([#72895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72895), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

 - Pods that are considered for preemption and haven't started don't produce an error log. ([#90241](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90241), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126691), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

- A new `kubelet_preemptions` metric is reported from Kubelets to track the number of preemptions occurring over time, and which resource is triggering those preemptions. ([#84120](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84120), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

- Fixed a 1.26 regression scheduling bug by ensuring that preemption is skipped when a PreFilter plugin returns `UnschedulableAndUnresolvable` ([#119953](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119953), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Pause image contains "Architecture" in non-amd64 images ([#87954](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87954), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Release]
- Pods that are considered for preemption and haven't started don't produce an error log. ([#87900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87900), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

  * Mark all static pods on the Master node as critical to prevent preemption ([#47356](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47356), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

## Changelog since v1.22.12

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fix memory leak on kube-scheduler preemption ([#111805](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111805), [@amewayne](https://github.com/amewayne)) [SIG Scheduling]

    *   Added
        [`tf.distribute.experimental.PreemptionCheckpointHandler`](https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/distribute/experimental/PreemptionCheckpointHandler)
        to handle worker preemption/maintenance and cluster-wise consistent
        error reporting for `tf.distribute.MultiWorkerMirroredStrategy`.
        Specifically, for the type of interruption with advance notice, it