- Fixes creationTimestamp: null causing unnecessary writes to etcd ([#116865](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116865), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Fixes creationTimestamp: null causing unnecessary writes to etcd ([#116865](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116865), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

* Update Cluster Autoscaler to version 1.3.7. ([#74136](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74136), [@jkaniuk](https://github.com/jkaniuk))
* Fix watch to not send the same set of events multiple times causing watcher to go back in time ([#73845](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73845), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126694), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

## Changelog since v1.33.2

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a bug causing unexpected delay of creating pods for newly created jobs ([#132158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132158), [@linxiulei](https://github.com/linxiulei)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Fix a bug causing unexpected delay of creating pods for newly created jobs ([#132109](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132109), [@linxiulei](https://github.com/linxiulei)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

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### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126693), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

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