* Default value for expendable pod priority cutoff in GCP deployment of Cluster Autoscaler changed from 0 to -10.
    * action required: users deploying workloads with priority lower than 0 may want to use priority lower than -10 to avoid triggering scale-up.
* [action required] kubeadm: The `v1alpha1` config API has been removed. ([#65628](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65628), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

- DRA: scheduling pods is up to 16x faster, depending on the scenario. Scheduling throughput depends a lot on cluster utilization. It is higher for lightly loaded clusters with free resources and gets lower when the cluster utilization increases. ([#127277](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127277), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Architecture, Auth, Etcd, Instrumentation, Node, Scheduling and Testing]

    * Default value for expendable pod priority cutoff in GCP deployment of Cluster Autoscaler changed from 0 to -10.
    * action required: users deploying workloads with priority lower than 0 may want to use priority lower than -10 to avoid triggering scale-up.

### Other notable changes

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  Previously, for IPv6, if the podSubnet had a mask lower than /112, kubeadm calculated a node-mask to be multiple of eight and splitting the available bits to maximise the number used for nodes. ([#95723](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95723), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Cluster...

  This change added the following metrics:
    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_nominal_limit_seats`: Nominal number of execution seats configured for each priority level
    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_lower_limit_seats`: Configured lower bound on number of execution seats available to each priority level
    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_upper_limit_seats`: Configured upper bound on number of execution seats available to each priority level

- Azure: fix concurreny issue in lb creation ([#89604](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89604), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Ensure Azure availability zone is always in lower cases. ([#89722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89722), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

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- Ensure Azure availability zone is always in lower cases. ([#89722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89722), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* Fixes panic if a kubelet is run against an older kube-apiserver ([#74529](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74529), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* The resource group name in Azure providerID is not converted to lower cases. ([#74882](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74882), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))