- Fixed the issue where pod with ordinal number lower than the rolling partitioning number was being deleted it was coming up with updated image. ([#120731](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120731), [@adilGhaffarDev](https://github.com/adilGhaffarDev)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

            <ul>
            <li>{@code length(string)}: Returns the length of the given string.</li>
            <li>{@code upper(string)}: Converts the string to uppercase.</li>
            <li>{@code lower(string)}: Converts the string to lowercase.</li>
            <li>{@code substring(string, start, [end])}: Returns a substring of the given string.</li>

- 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]

* Experimental support to reserve a pod's memory request from being utilized by
  pods in lower QoS tiers.
  ([#41149](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41149),
  [@sjenning](https://github.com/sjenning))
* Port forwarding can forward over websockets or SPDY.

officers of the court," and I never understood what it meant
till now.'

  `If that's all you know about it, you may stand down,'
continued the King.

  `I can't go no lower,' said the Hatter:  `I'm on the floor, as
it is.'

  `Then you may SIT down,' the King replied.

  Here the other guinea-pig cheered, and was suppressed.

* 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))

- 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]

  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

- 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]