- Added new option to the `InterPodAffinity` scheduler plugin to ignore existing
  pods` preferred inter-pod affinities if the incoming pod has no preferred inter-pod
  affinities. This option can be used as an optimization for higher scheduling throughput
  (at the cost of an occasional pod being scheduled non-optimally/violating existing
  pods preferred inter-pod affinities). To enable this scheduler option, set the

* Bugfix for erroneous upgrade needed messaging in kubernetes worker charm. ([#60873](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60873), [@wwwtyro](https://github.com/wwwtyro))
* Fix inter-pod anti-affinity check to consider a pod a match when all the anti-affinity terms match. ([#62715](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62715), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

* fix cinder volume dir umount issue [#24717](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24717) ([#24718](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24718), [@chengyli](https://github.com/chengyli))
* Inter pod topological affinity and anti-affinity implementation ([#22985](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/22985), [@kevin-wangzefeng](https://github.com/kevin-wangzefeng))

          "stopwords": ["och", "det", "att", "i", "en", "jag", "hon", "som", "han", "på", "den", "med", "var", "sig", "för", "så", "till", "är", "men", "ett", "om", "hade", "de", "av", "icke", "mig", "du", "henne", "då", "sin", "nu", "har", "inte", "hans", "honom", "skulle", "hennes", "där", "min", "man", "ej", "vid", "kunde", "något", "från", "ut", "när", "efter", "upp", "vi", "dem", "vara", "vad", "över", "än", "dig", "kan", "sina", "här", "ha", "mot", "alla", "under", "någon", "eller", "allt",...

          "stopwords": ["och", "det", "att", "i", "en", "jag", "hon", "som", "han", "på", "den", "med", "var", "sig", "för", "så", "till", "är", "men", "ett", "om", "hade", "de", "av", "icke", "mig", "du", "henne", "då", "sin", "nu", "har", "inte", "hans", "honom", "skulle", "hennes", "där", "min", "man", "ej", "vid", "kunde", "något", "från", "ut", "när", "efter", "upp", "vi", "dem", "vara", "vad", "över", "än", "dig", "kan", "sina", "här", "ha", "mot", "alla", "under", "någon", "eller", "allt",...

  |   what is allowed in the field.
  |
  | o validators: there could be several levels of validation. Simple type validation could
  |   be done with a regex, but we need inter-field validation and rules which could be
  |   dealt with by something like drools.
  |
  | o i18n: would be good to be able to have names/descriptions/specifications
  |   in as many languages as possible. (see MNG-3626)
  |

- User can now use component config to configure NodeLabel plugin for the scheduler framework. ([#84297](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84297), [@liu-cong](https://github.com/liu-cong))
- Optimize inter-pod affinity preferredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution type, up to 4x in some cases. ([#84264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84264), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g))

- Fixed queue hint for certain plugins on change to pods with nominated nodes ([#135392](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135392), [@brejman](https://github.com/brejman)) [SIG Scheduling]

- The Kubernetes API server merged selectors built from `matchLabelKeys` into the `labelSelector` of `topologySpreadConstraints`, aligning Pod Topology Spread behavior with Inter-Pod Affinity. To prevent breaking existing Pods using `matchLabelKeys`, this scheduler behavior was preserved until v1.34. Upgrades from v1.32 to v1.34 should be done incrementally (v1.32 → v1.33 → v1.34), ensuring Pods created at v1.32 with `matchLabelKeys`...

  * [Nodes](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/#node-affinity-beta-feature) and [pods](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/#inter-pod-affinity-and-anti-affinity-beta-feature) now support affinity and anti-affinity