- TaintNodeByCondition has been moved to Beta and is enabled by default.
- Scheduler throughput has been improved by ~50% in large clusters (>2000 nodes).

### SIG-service-catalog
- The Originating Identity feature, which lets the broker know which user that performed an action, is now GA.

				saveMRFToDisk()
			}
		}
	}
}

func (p *ReplicationPool) queueMRFSave(entry MRFReplicateEntry) {
	if !p.initialized() {
		return
	}
	if entry.RetryCount > mrfRetryLimit { // let scanner catch up if retry count exceeded
		atomic.AddUint64(&p.stats.mrfStats.TotalDroppedCount, 1)
		atomic.AddUint64(&p.stats.mrfStats.TotalDroppedBytes, uint64(entry.sz))
		return
	}

	select {

- Added alpha support for field selectors on custom resources.
  Provided that the `CustomResourceFieldSelectors` feature gate is enabled, the CustomResourceDefinition
  API now lets you specify `selectableFields`. Listing a field there allows filtering custom resources for that

		}
		return res, err
	}

	if len(xlMeta.versions) <= 10 {
		// any number of versions beyond this is excessive
		// avoid healing such objects in this manner, let
		// it heal during the regular scanner cycle.
		dst := []byte{}
		for _, ver := range xlMeta.versions {
			dst = slices.Grow(dst, 16)
			copy(dst[len(dst):], ver.header.VersionID[:])
		}
		res.Sign = dst

Added Coordinated Leader Election as Alpha under the `CoordinatedLeaderElection` feature gate. With the feature enabled, the control plane can use LeaseCandidate objects (coordination.k8s.io/v1alpha1 API group) to participate in a leader election and let the kube-apiserver select the best instance according to some strategy. ([#124012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124012), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, Cloud Provider, Etcd, Node, Release,...

The StorageProtection feature, which prevents deletion of PVCs while Pods are still using them and of PVs while still bound to a PVC, is now generally available, and volume resizing, which lets you increase size of a volume after a Pod restarts is now beta, which means it is on by default.

New alpha features include:

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## Changelog since v1.7.0

### Other notable changes

* Added new flag to `kubeadm init`: --node-name, that lets you specify the name of the Node object that will be created ([#48594](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48594), [@GheRivero](https://github.com/GheRivero))

* Remove Job also from .status.active for Replace strategy ([#35420](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35420), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
* Let release_1_5 clientset include multiple versions of a group ([#35471](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35471), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

  An example claim validation rule expression that matches the validation automatically
  applied when username.claim is set to 'email' is 'claims.?email_verified.orValue(true) == true'. 
  By explicitly comparing the value to true, we let type-checking see the result will be a boolean,