* Address a bug which allowed the horizontal pod autoscaler to allocate `desiredReplicas` > `maxReplicas` in certain instances. ([#53690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53690), [@mattjmcnaughton](https://github.com/mattjmcnaughton))

* Kubelet won't evict a static pod with priority `system-node-critical` upon resource pressure. ([#74222](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74222), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
* Re-issue Allocate grpc calls before starting a container that requests device-plugin resources if the cached state is missing. ([#73824](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73824), [@jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))

### Bug or Regression

"crypto/internal/fips140/subtle" "crypto/internal/fips140deps/byteorder" "math/bits" ) type CTR struct { b Block ivlo, ivhi uint64 // start counter as 64-bit limbs offset uint64 // for XORKeyStream only } func NewCTR(b *Block, iv []byte) *CTR { // Allocate the CTR here, in an easily inlineable function, so // the allocation can be done in the caller's stack frame // instead of the heap. See issue 70499. c := newCTR(b, iv) return &c } func newCTR(b *Block, iv []byte) CTR { if len(iv) != BlockSize {...

"crypto/internal/fips140/subtle" "crypto/internal/fips140deps/byteorder" "math/bits" ) type CTR struct { b Block ivlo, ivhi uint64 // start counter as 64-bit limbs offset uint64 // for XORKeyStream only } func NewCTR(b *Block, iv []byte) *CTR { // Allocate the CTR here, in an easily inlineable function, so // the allocation can be done in the caller's stack frame // instead of the heap. See issue 70499. c := newCTR(b, iv) return &c } func newCTR(b *Block, iv []byte) CTR { if len(iv) != BlockSize {...