*   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))

- `PidPressure` now evicts pods from lowest priority to highest priority ([#72844](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72844), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

        </field>
        <field>
          <name>inceptionYear</name>
          <version>3.0.0+</version>
          <required>true</required>
          <description>The year of the project's inception, specified with 4 digits. This value is
            used when generating copyright notices as well as being informational.</description>
          <type>String</type>
        </field>
        <field>
          <name>organization</name>

- To enhance usability and developer experience, CRD validation rules now support direct use of (CEL) reserved keywords as field names in object validation expressions.

anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad
cold if she did not get dry very soon.

  `Ahem!' said the Mouse with an important air, `are you all ready?
This is the driest thing I know.  Silence all round, if you please!
"William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was
soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been

- Kubeadm: remove the CoreDNS check for known image digests when applying the addon ([#94506](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94506), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- Replace scale down forbidden window with scale down stabilization window. Rather than waiting a fixed period of time between scale downs HPA now scales down to the highest recommendation it during the scale down stabilization window. ([#68122](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68122), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))

  users on the system.) ([#124152](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124152), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network]

zero after it restarts. If the extended resource is exported by a device plugin, its capacity will change to a valid value after the device plugin re-connects with the Kubelet. If the extended resource is exported by an external component through direct node status capacity patching, the component should repatch the field after kubelet becomes ready again. During the time gap, pods previously assigned with such resources may fail kubelet admission but their controller should create new pods in response...

#### Cluster Selection
* [alpha] Federation [ClusterSelector annotation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-federation/cluster/#clusterselector-annotation) to direct objects to federated clusters with matching labels.


### **Instrumentation**
#### Core Metrics API