- Fixed an issue in register-gen where imports for k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime and k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema were missing. ([#130392](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130392), [@mrIncompetent](https://github.com/mrIncompetent)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Exposes and sets a default timeout for the SubjectAccessReview client for DelegatingAuthorizationOptions ([#95725](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95725), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

- Fix job controller syncs: In case of conflicts, ensure that the sync happens with the most up to date information. Improves reliability of JobTrackingWithFinalizers. ([#105214](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105214), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))

#### **Hardware Accelerators**

*   Kubelet now exposes metrics for NVIDIA GPUs attached to the containers. ([#55188](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55188),[ @mindprince](https://github.com/mindprince))

- AcceleratorStats will be available in the Summary API of kubelet when cri_stats_provider is used. ([#97017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97017), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao)) [SIG Node]
- Exposes and sets a default timeout for the SubjectAccessReview client for DelegatingAuthorizationOptions ([#95910](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95910), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

- Improves scheduler performance when no scoring plugins are defined. ([#122058](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122058), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska)) [SIG Scheduling]

* The implicit registration of Prometheus metrics for request count and latency have been removed, and a plug-able interface was added. If you were using our client libraries in your own binaries and want these metrics, add the following to your imports in the main package: "k8s.io/pkg/client/metrics/prometheus".  ([#30638](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30638), [@krousey](https://github.com/krousey))

* Support whitespace in command path for gcp auth plugin ([#41653](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41653), [@jlowdermilk](https://github.com/jlowdermilk))
* client-go no longer imports GCP OAuth2 and OpenID Connect packages by default. ([#41532](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41532), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

* kubeadm: remove the deprecated "--address" flag for controller-manager and scheduler. ([#71973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71973), [@MalloZup](https://github.com/MalloZup))
* kube-apiserver: improves performance of requests made with service account token authentication ([#71816](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71816), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- The Image Locality priority function of the scheduler has been improved and is now enabled by default. With this feature enabled, nodes that have all or a partial set of images required for running a pod are preferred over other nodes, which improves pod start-up time.
- TaintNodeByCondition has been moved to Beta and is enabled by default.
- Scheduler throughput has been improved by ~50% in large clusters (>2000 nodes).

### SIG-service-catalog