- Don't let aggregated apiservers fail to launch if the external-apiserver-authentication configmap is not found in the cluster. ([#67836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67836), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

Added Coordinated Leader Election as Alpha under the `CoordinatedLeaderElection` feature gate. With the feature enabled, the control plane can use LeaseCandidate objects (coordination.k8s.io/v1alpha1 API group) to participate in a leader election and let the kube-apiserver select the best instance according to some strategy. ([#124012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124012), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Cloud Provider, Etcd, Node, Release,...

   ([#123508](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123508), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))
- Dynamic Resource Allocation: DRA drivers can now use "structured parameters" to let the scheduler handle claim allocation.
   ([#123516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123516), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

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        try {
          return Uninterruptibles.getUninterruptibly(result);
        } catch (Throwable t) {
          // don't let refresh exceptions propagate; error was already logged
        }
      }
      return null;
    }

    /**
     * Returns a newly inserted {@code LoadingValueReference}, or null if the live value reference

* Remove Job also from .status.active for Replace strategy ([#35420](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35420), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
* Let release_1_5 clientset include multiple versions of a group ([#35471](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35471), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

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  An example claim validation rule expression that matches the validation automatically
  applied when username.claim is set to 'email' is 'claims.?email_verified.orValue(true) == true'. 
  By explicitly comparing the value to true, we let type-checking see the result will be a boolean, 

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- Introduce scheduling.k8s.io/v1alpha1 Workload API to allow for expressing workload-level scheduling requirements and let kube-scheduler act on those. ([#134564](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134564), [@macsko](https://github.com/macsko)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, CLI, Etcd, Scheduling and Testing]

- Fix PermissionDenied issue on SMB mount for Windows ([#99550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99550), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Fix bug that would let the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler scale down despite at least one metric being unavailable/invalid ([#99514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99514), [@mikkeloscar](https://github.com/mikkeloscar)) [SIG Apps and Autoscaling]