*   A new scheduling queue helps schedule the highest priority pending pod first. ([#55109](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55109),[ @bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

    * Health check parameters are configurable to be bigger than default values.

day!  Why, I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks!'

  `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!'

* Bumped Heapster to v1.2.0. ([#32649](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32649), [@piosz](https://github.com/piosz))
    * More details about the release https://github.com/kubernetes/heapster/releases/tag/v1.2.0
* Docker digest validation is too strict ([#32627](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32627), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

- Added a mechanism that calculates a digest of etcd and the watch cache every 5 minutes and exposes it as the `apiserver_storage_digest` metric. ([#130475](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130475), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation...

* [fluentd-gcp addon] By default ingest apiserver audit logs written to file in JSON format. ([#52541](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52541), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

- Remove the deprecated metrics "scheduling_algorithm_preemption_evaluation_seconds" and "binding_duration_seconds", suggest to use "scheduler_framework_extension_point_duration_seconds" instead. ([#96447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96447), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Scheduling and Testing]

- Shell completion now knows to continue suggesting resource names when the command supports it.  For example `kubectl get pod pod1 <TAB>` will suggest more Pod names. ([#105711](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105711), [@marckhouzam](https://github.com/marckhouzam))

- github.com/onsi/gomega: [5533ce8 → v1.5.0](https://github.com/onsi/gomega/compare/5533ce8...v1.5.0)
- github.com/opencontainers/go-digest: [a6d0ee4 → v1.0.0-rc1](https://github.com/opencontainers/go-digest/compare/a6d0ee4...v1.0.0-rc1)
- github.com/opencontainers/image-spec: [372ad78 → v1.0.1](https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec/compare/372ad78...v1.0.1)

- Fix azure disk attach failure for disk size bigger than 4TB ([#95463](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95463), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]