- Fix scoring for `NodeResourcesMostAllocated` and `NodeResourcesBalancedAllocation` plugins when nodes have containers with no requests. This was leaving to under-utilization of small nodes. ([#102925](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102925), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))

pod priority and pod preemption. These features allow mixing various types of workloads in a single cluster, and help reach
higher levels of resource utilization and availability.
These features are in alpha. SIG Scheduling also improved the internal APIs for scheduling and made them easier for other components and external schedulers to use.

### Bug or Regression

- Fix scoring for NodeResourcesMostAllocated and NodeResourcesBalancedAllocation plugins when nodes have containers with no requests. This was leaving to under-utilization of small nodes. ([#102925](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102925), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

* kubelet: resolved hang/timeout issues when running large numbers of pods with unique configmap/secret references ([#74755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74755), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Reduce memory utilization of admission webhook metrics by removing resource related labels. ([#69895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69895), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))