- E2e: tests can now register callbacks with `ginkgo.BeforeEach`, `ginkgo.AfterEach` or `ginkgo.DeferCleanup` directly after creating a framework instance and are guaranteed that their code is called after the framework is initialized and before it gets cleaned up. `ginkgo.DeferCleanup`...

* kube-scheduler now fallbacks to emitting events using core/v1 Events when events.k8s.io/v1beta1 is disabled. ([#83692](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83692), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

- Faster mount detection for linux kernel 5.10+ using openat2 speeding up pod churn rates. On Kernel versions less 5.10, it will fallback to using the original way of detecting mount points i.e by parsing /proc/mounts. ([#109217](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109217), [@manugupt1](https://github.com/manugupt1))

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* Restored the ability of kubectl running inside a pod to consume resource files specifying a different namespace than the one the pod is...

* Fix scheduler crashes when Prioritize Map function returns error. ([#69618](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69618), [@DylanBLE](https://github.com/DylanBLE))
* Add fallbacks to ARM API when getting empty node IP from Azure IMDS ([#69077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69077), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* kube-scheduler now fallbacks to emitting events using core/v1 Events when events.k8s.io/v1beta1 is disabled. ([#83692](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83692), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

- Bump the KubeletCgroupDriverFromCRI feature gate to beta and true by default. The kubelet will continue to use its KubeletConfiguration field as a fallback if the CRI implementation doesn't support this feature. ([#125828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125828), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander)) [SIG Node]

- Kubeadm: upgrade supports fallback to the nearest known etcd version if an unknown k8s version is passed ([#88373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88373), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

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