- Introduce `v1beta3` API for scheduler. This version 
  - increases the weight of user specifiable priorities.
  The weights of following priority plugins are increased
    - `TaintTolerations` to 3 - as leveraging node tainting to group nodes in the cluster is becoming a widely-adopted practice
    - `NodeAffinity` to 2
    - `InterPodAffinity` to 2
  

- Fixed a kubelet and kube-apiserver memory leak in default 1.29 configurations related to tracing. ([#126957](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126957), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Instrumentation and Node]

* Default host user namespace via experimental flag ([#31169](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31169), [@pweil-](https://github.com/pweil-))
* Use generous limits in the resource usage tracking tests ([#36623](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36623), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

Kubernetes 1.24 offers beta support for publishing its APIs in the [OpenAPI v3 format](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/2896).

### Storage Capacity and Volume Expansion Are Generally Available

[Storage capacity tracking](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/1472)
supports exposing currently available storage capacity via [CSIStorageCapacity objects](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/storage-capacity/#api)

- kube-proxy: os exit when CleanupAndExit is set to true ([#76732](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76732), [@JieJhih](https://github.com/JieJhih))
- Kubernetes will now allow trailing dots in the externalName of Services of type ExternalName. ([#78385](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78385), [@thz](https://github.com/thz))

### Node

  `I'm very sorry you've been annoyed,' said Alice, who was
beginning to see its meaning.

  `And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,' continued
the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, `and just as I was
thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come
wriggling down from the sky!  Ugh, Serpent!'

  `But I'm NOT a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice.  `I'm a--I'm

     * Read operations can thus proceed without locking, but rely on selected uses of volatiles to
     * ensure that completed write operations performed by other threads are noticed. For most
     * purposes, the "count" field, tracking the number of elements, serves as that volatile
     * variable ensuring visibility. This is convenient because this field needs to be read in many
     * read operations anyway:
     *

* `kubeadm init` can now omit the tainting of the master node if configured to do so in `kubeadm.yaml` using `noTaintMaster: true`. For example, uses can create a file with the content:

```
apiVersion: [kubeadm.k8s.io/v1alpha1](http://kubeadm.k8s.io/v1alpha1)

* The Prometheus metrics for the kube-apiserver for tracking incoming API requests and latencies now return the `subresource` label for correctly attributing the type of API call. ([#46354](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46354), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

    <sub-class-of type="message/rfc822"/>
  </mime-type>

  <mime-type type="message/s-http"/>
  <mime-type type="message/sip"/>
  <mime-type type="message/sipfrag"/>
  <mime-type type="message/tracking-status"/>
  <mime-type type="message/vnd.si.simp"/>
  <mime-type type="model/e57">
    <_comment>3d imaging data exchange</_comment>
    <magic priority="60">