- Give terminal phase correctly to all pods that will not be restarted. 

  In particular, assign Failed phase to pods which are deleted while pending. Also, assign a terminal 
  phase (Succeeded or Failed, depending on the exit statuses of the pod containers) to pods which
  are deleted while running.
  

* This fix prevents...

*   A new priority function ResourceLimitsPriorityMap (disabled by default and behind alpha feature gate and not part of the scheduler's default priority functions list) that assigns a lowest possible score of 1 to a node that satisfies one or both of input pod's cpu and memory limits, mainly to break ties between nodes with same scores. ([#55906](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55906),[ @aveshagarwal](https://g...

- The e2e suite can be instructed not to wait for pods in kube-system to be ready or for all nodes to be ready by passing `--allowed-not-ready-nodes=-1` when invoking the e2e.test program. This allows callers to run subsets of the e2e suite in scenarios other than perfectly healthy clusters. ([#98781](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98781), [@smartercl...

  much later). ([#122757](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122757), [@hakman](https://github.com/hakman)) [SIG Network]
- If a pvc has an empty storageClassName, persistentvolume controller won't try to assign a default StorageClass ([#122704](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122704), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

* [alpha] This version now supports priority-based preemption of pods ([user doc](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption/))([design doc](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/design-proposals/scheduling/pod-preemption.md))

    * Some refactoring of error/status messages and functions to align with new approach.
* This PR will leverage subtests on the existing table tests for the scheduler units. ([#63661](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63661), [@xchapter7x](https://github.com/xchapter7x))
    * Some refactoring of error/status messages and functions to align with new approach.

    - [Server binaries](#server-binaries-9)
    - [Node binaries](#node-binaries-9)
  - [Changelog since v1.18.9](#changelog-since-v1189)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-9)
    - [Design](#design)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-9)
    - [Other (Cleanup or Flake)](#other-cleanup-or-flake-2)
  - [Dependencies](#dependencies-10)
    - [Added](#added-10)
    - [Changed](#changed-10)

    - [Server binaries](#server-binaries-4)
    - [Node binaries](#node-binaries-4)
  - [Changelog since v1.17.12](#changelog-since-v11712)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-4)
    - [Design](#design)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-4)
    - [Other (Cleanup or Flake)](#other-cleanup-or-flake-2)
  - [Dependencies](#dependencies-4)
    - [Added](#added-4)
    - [Changed](#changed-4)

* The Kubelet now exports metrics that report the assigned (`node_config_assigned`), last-known-good (`node_config_last_known_good`), and active (`node_config_active`) config sources, and a metric indicating whether the node is experiencing a config-related error (`node_config_error`). The config source metrics always...