- The Image Locality priority function of the scheduler has been improved and is now enabled by default. With this feature enabled, nodes that have all or a partial set of images required for running a pod are preferred over other nodes, which improves pod start-up time.
- TaintNodeByCondition has been moved to Beta and is enabled by default.
- Scheduler throughput has been improved by ~50% in large clusters (>2000 nodes).

### Windows

- Kubeadm: support experimental JSON/YAML output for `kubeadm upgrade plan` with the `--output` flag. ([#108447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108447), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- Kubeadm: the preferred pod anti-affinity for CoreDNS is now enabled by default. ([#110593](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110593), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

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* Configurable etcd compaction frequency in GCE ([#59106](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59106), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* [GCE] Apiserver uses `InternalIP` as the most preferred kubelet address type by default. ([#59019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59019), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

* [GCE] Apiserver uses `InternalIP` as the most preferred kubelet address type by default. ([#59019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59019), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

- Add support for CEL expressions with escaped names in structured authentication config.  Using `[` for accessing claims or user data is preferred when names contain characters that would need to be escaped.  CEL optionals via `?` can be used in places where `has` cannot be used, i.e. `claims[?"kubernetes.io"]` or `user.extra[?"domain.io/foo"]`. ([#131574](https://github.com/kubernetes/kub...

   ([#123341](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123341), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. Referrer-Policy:strict-origin-when-cross-origin */
    String API_JSON_RESPONSE_HEADERS = "api.json.response.headers";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. false */
    String API_JSON_RESPONSE_EXCEPTION_INCLUDED = "api.json.response.exception.included";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. Referrer-Policy:strict-origin-when-cross-origin */

### etcd moves to version 3.5.0