- Allow CSI drivers to just run offline expansion tests. ([#102665](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102665), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
- Changed buildmode of non static Kubernetes binaries to produce position independent executables (PIE). ([#102323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102323), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

- 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]

- In the course of admitting a single request, the ValidatingAdmissionPolicy plugin will perform no more than one authorization check per unique authorizer expression. All evaluations of identical authorizer expressions will produce the same decision. ([#116443](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116443), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- 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]

    * This was reported internally by [@rushilsrivastava](https://github.com/rushilsrivastava) as a memory leak when the server had unhandled exceptions that would produce internal server errors, the memory allocated before that point would not be released.