### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Service session affinity timeout tests are no longer required for Kubernetes network plugin conformance due to variations in existing implementations. New conformance tests will be developed to better express conformance in future releases. ([#112806](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112806), [@dcbw](https://github.com/dcbw)) [SIG Architecture, Network and Testing]

## Dependencies

### Added

- New scoring for PodTopologySpreading that yields better spreading ([#90475](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90475), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

### SIG Scheduling

- All `klog` flags except for `-v` and `-vmodule` are deprecated. Support for `-vmodule` is only guaranteed for the text log format. ([#105042](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105042), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

  * Fix the Kubelet PLEG update timestamp to better reflect the health of the component when the container runtime request hangs. ([#45496](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45496), [@andyxning](https://github.com/andyxning))

### Bug or Regression

- Added jitter factor to lease controller that better smears load on kube-apiserver over time. ([#101652](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101652), [@marseel](https://github.com/marseel)) [SIG API Machinery and Scalability]

- Service session affinity timeout tests are no longer required for Kubernetes network plugin conformance due to variations in existing implementations. New conformance tests will be developed to better express conformance in future releases. ([#112806](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112806), [@dcbw](https://github.com/dcbw)) [SIG Architecture, Network and Testing]

* update QEMU version to v2.9.1 ([#50597](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50597), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))
* controllers backoff better in face of quota denial ([#49142](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49142), [@joelsmith](https://github.com/joelsmith))

- Implemented logging and event recording for probe results with an `Unknown` status in the kubelet's prober module. This helps in better diagnosing and monitoring cases where container probes return an `Unknown` result, improving the observability and reliability of health checks. ([#125901](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125901), [@jralmaraz](https://github.com/jralmaraz))...

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