- 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]

* 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))

- 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]

- Graduated the asynchronous preemption feature in the scheduler to beta. 
  Now the feature flag (SchedulerAsyncPreemption) is enabled by default. ([#130550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130550), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [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))

- 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