* Add `metrics-port` to kube-proxy cmd flags. ([#72682](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72682), [@whypro](https://github.com/whypro))
* Adds deleting pods created by DaemonSet assigned to not existing nodes. ([#73401](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73401), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))

- HostNetwork pods no longer depend on the PodIPs to be assigned to configure the defined hostAliases on the Pod ([#126460](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126460), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network, Node and Testing]

* Admit critical pods in the kubelet ([#38836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38836), [@bprashanth](https://github.com/bprashanth))
* assign -998 as the oom_score_adj for critical pods (e.g. kube-proxy) ([#39114](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39114), [@dchen1107](https://github.com/dchen1107))

* Admit critical pods in the kubelet ([#38836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38836), [@bprashanth](https://github.com/bprashanth))
* assign -998 as the oom_score_adj for critical pods (e.g. kube-proxy) ([#39114](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39114), [@dchen1107](https://github.com/dchen1107))

  sources like Apache Nutch, Apache HTTP Server, the file(1) command, etc.

  Notes:
   * Tika supports a wider range of match types than Freedesktop does
   * Glob patterns must be unique, if there's a clash assign to the most
     popular format
   * The main mime type should be the canonical one, use aliases for any
     other widely used forms
   * Where there's a hierarchy in the types, list it via a parent

  It changes the dual-stack API wrt Service from a single ipFamily field to 3
  fields: ipFamilyPolicy (SingleStack, PreferDualStack, RequireDualStack),
  ipFamilies (a list of families assigned), and clusterIPs (inclusive of
  clusterIP).  Most users do not need to set anything at all, defaulting will
  handle it for them.  Services are single-stack unless the user asks for

i++ { _, c = bits.Sub(xLimbs[i], yLimbs[i], c) } // If there was a carry, then subtracting y underflowed, so // x is not greater than or equal to y. return not(choice(c)) } // assign sets x <- y if on == 1, and does nothing otherwise. // // Both operands must have the same announced length. // //go:norace func (x *Nat) assign(on choice, y *Nat) *Nat { // Eliminate bounds checks in the loop. size := len(x.limbs) xLimbs := x.limbs[:size] yLimbs := y.limbs[:size] mask := ctMask(on) for i := 0; i < size;...

*   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 PersistentVolume controller no longer automatically assigns a default `StorageClass` to Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs) with an empty `storageClassName`.
   ([#122704](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122704), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

- Kube-proxy, will restart in case it detects that the Node assigned pod.Spec.PodCIDRs have changed ([#113252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113252), [@code-elinka](https://github.com/code-elinka)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Network, Node and Storage]