- Added support for installing `arm64` node artifacts. ([#99242](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99242), [@liu-cong](https://github.com/liu-cong))

- Some interfaces' signatures in the scheduler were updated: - PluginsRunner: used NodeInfo in `RunPreScorePlugins` and `RunScorePlugins`. - PreScorePlugin: used NodeInfo in `PreScore`. - Extender: used NodeInfo in `Filter` and `Prioritize`.
   ([#121954](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121954), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))

* Disallow PriorityClass names with 'system-' prefix for user defined priority classes. ([#59382](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59382), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))
* kube-scheduler: Use default predicates/prioritizers if they are unspecified in the policy config. ([#59363](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59363), [@yguo0905](https://github.com/yguo0905))

* Pod disruption budgets shouldn't be checked for terminal pods while evicting ([#68892](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68892), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla))
* Fix scheduler crashes when Prioritize Map function returns error. ([#68563](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68563), [@DylanBLE](https://github.com/DylanBLE))

- Introduce `v1beta3` API for scheduler. This version 
  - increases the weight of user specifiable priorities.
  The weights of following priority plugins are increased
    - `TaintTolerations` to 3 - as leveraging node tainting to group nodes in the cluster is becoming a widely-adopted practice
    - `NodeAffinity` to 2

- `maxThreshold` of `ImageLocality` plugin is now scaled by the number of images in the pod, which helps to distinguish the node priorities for pod with several images. ([#91138](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91138), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave)) [SIG Scheduling]

### Documentation

* Bump CNI consumers to v0.5.1 ([#43546](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43546), [@calebamiles](https://github.com/calebamiles))