* Corrected a race condition in bootstrapping aggregated cluster roles in new HA clusters ([#63761](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63761), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- The `BalancedAllocation` plugin now skips all best-effort (zero-requested) pods. ([#130260](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130260), [@Bowser1704](https://github.com/Bowser1704))
- The following roles have had `Watch` added to them (prefixed with `system:controller:`):
  
  - `cronjob-controller`
  - `endpoint-controller`
  - `endpointslice-controller`
  - `endpointslicemirroring-controller`

- Dropped the additional rule requirement (cronjobs/finalizers) for roles
  using kubectl create cronjobs to ensure backward compatibility. ([#124883](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124883), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

- Warn instead of fail when creating Roles and ClusterRoles with custom verbs via kubectl ([#92492](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92492), [@eddiezane](https://github.com/eddiezane)) [SIG CLI]

* Fix SelectorSpreadPriority scheduler to match all selectors when distributing pods. ([#72801](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72801), [@Ramyak](https://github.com/Ramyak))
* Add bootstrap service account & cluster roles for node-lifecycle-controller, cloud-node-lifecycle-controller, and cloud-node-controller.   ([#72764](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72764), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

- PersistentVolumes have a new `LastPhaseTransitionTime` field which holds a timestamp of when the volume last transitioned its phase. ([#116469](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116469), [@RomanBednar](https://github.com/RomanBednar))

- `kubectl create token` can now be used to request a service account token, and permission to request service account tokens is added to the `edit` and `admin` RBAC roles ([#107880](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107880), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Drop additional rule requirement (cronjobs/finalizers) in the roles who use kubectl create cronjobs to be backwards compatible ([#124883](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124883), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu)) [SIG CLI]

- The following roles have had `Watch` added to them (prefixed with `system:controller:`):
  
  - `cronjob-controller`
  - `endpoint-controller`
  - `endpointslice-controller`
  - `endpointslicemirroring-controller`

    <glob pattern="*.pen"/>
    <glob pattern="*.pod"/>
    <glob pattern="*.pom"/>
    <glob pattern="*.project"/>
    <glob pattern="*.rng"/>
    <glob pattern="*.rnx"/>
    <glob pattern="*.roles"/>
    <glob pattern="*.schemas"/>
    <glob pattern="*.tld"/>
    <glob pattern="*.types"/>
    <glob pattern="*.vm"/>
    <glob pattern="*.vsl"/>
    <glob pattern="*.wsdd"/>