- Improved scheduling latency when there are many gated pods and events that trigger requeueing from the unschedulable pool. ([#124618](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124618), [@gabesaba](https://github.com/gabesaba)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

  The well-known annotation endpoints.kubernetes.io/last-change-trigger-time is skipped and not mirrored. ([#100443](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100443), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]

- Added `job_pods_creation_total` metrics for tracking Pods created by the Job controller labeled by events which triggered the Pod creation. ([#121481](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121481), [@dejanzele](https://github.com/dejanzele))
- Added `kubectl node drain` helper callbacks `OnPodDeletionOrEvictionStarted`

- Fixed a bug where a change in the `appProtocol` for a Service did not trigger a load balancer update. ([#113033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113033), [@MartinForReal](https://github.com/MartinForReal)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]

  The well-known annotation `endpoints.kubernetes.io/last-change-trigger-time` is skipped and not mirrored. ([#98116](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98116), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

- Fixed a bug where a change in the `appProtocol` for a Service did not trigger a load balancer update. ([#113032](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113032), [@MartinForReal](https://github.com/MartinForReal)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]

  The well-known annotation endpoints.kubernetes.io/last-change-trigger-time is skipped and not mirrored. ([#100443](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100443), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]

* flexvolume: trigger plugin init only for the relevant plugin while probe ([#58519](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58519), [@linyouchong](https://github.com/linyouchong))

- In some cases, a Flex volume resize may leave a PVC with erroneous Resizing condition even after volume has...

- `(*"k8s.io/client-go/rest".Request).{Do,DoRaw,Stream,Watch}` now require callers to pass a `context.Context` as an argument. The context is used for timeout and cancellation signaling and to pass supplementary information to round trippers in the wrapped transport chain. If you don't need any of this functionality, it is sufficient to pass a context created with `context.Background()` to these functions. The `(*"k8s.io/client-go/rest".Request).Context` method is removed now that all...