- Improved performance of kube-proxy with EndpointSlice enabled with more efficient sorting. ([#83035](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83035), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))

 * determining whether a given domain name is an effective top-level domain (public suffix).
 *
 * <p>Because this class is used in GWT, the data members are stored in a space-efficient manner.
 * See {@link TrieParser}.
 *
 * @since 16.0
 */
@GwtCompatible
@Beta
public final class PublicSuffixPatterns {
  private PublicSuffixPatterns() {}

- `scheduler`: handling of unschedulable pods because a `ResourceClass` is missing
  is a bit more efficient and no longer relies on periodic retries. ([#120213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120213), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

## Dependencies

### Added
- cloud.google.com/go/dataproc/v2: v2.0.1

- Implemented prioritization of resize requests based on `priorityClass` and QoS class when node resources are insufficient to accommodate all pending resize operations. ([#132342](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132342), [@natasha41575](https://github.com/natasha41575)) [SIG Node and Testing]

* Fix false positive "meaningful conflict" detection for strategic merge patch with integer values. ([#44788](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44788), [@enisoc](https://github.com/enisoc))
* Fix insufficient permissions to read/write volumes when mounting them with a subPath. ([#43775](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43775), [@wongma7](https://github.com/wongma7))

* A new client `k8s.io/client-go/metadata.Client` has been added for accessing objects generically. This client makes it easier to retrieve only the metadata (the `metadata` sub-section) from resources on the cluster in an efficient manner for use cases that deal with objects generically, like the garbage collector, quota, or the namespace controller. The client asks the server to return a `meta.k8s.io/v1 PartialObjectMetadata` object for list, get, delete, watch, and patch...