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- With this new stable feature, Kubernetes supports the scaling of containerized applications with Azure VMSS, including the ability to integrate it with cluster-autoscaler to automatically adjust the size of the Kubernetes clusters based on the same conditions.

### SIG-cli

- Kubeadm now respects the custom image registry configuration across joins and upgrades. Kubeadm passes the custom registry to the kubelet for a custom pause container. ([#70603](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70603), [@chuckha](https://github.com/chuckha))

- Kubeadm: external etcd endpoints passed in the `ClusterConfiguration` that have Unicode characters are no longer IDNA encoded (converted to Punycode). They are now just URL encoded as per Go's implementation of RFC-3986, have duplicate "/" removed from the URL paths, and passed like that directly to the `kube-apiserver` `--etcd-servers` flag. If you have etcd endpoints that have Unicode characters, it is...

- The new flag `--chunk-size=SIZE` has been added to `kubectl describe`. This flag may be used to alter the number of items or disable this feature when `0` is passed. ([#101171](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101171), [@KnVerey](https://github.com/KnVerey))...

    - [Promoted Server Side Unknown Field Validation to Beta](#promoted-server-side-unknown-field-validation-to-beta)
    - [Introduced KMS v2](#introduced-kms-v2)
    - [Kube-proxy images are now based on distroless images](#kube-proxy-images-are-now-based-on-distroless-images)
  - [Known Issues](#known-issues)

- Introduce alpha support for exec-based container registry credential provider plugins in the kubelet. ([#94196](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94196), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG Node and Release]

- Scheduler v1 Policy config or algorithm-provider settings can now be passed alongside v1beta1 ComponentConfig to aid transition from Policy to CC ([#92531](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92531), [@damemi](https://github.com/damemi)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Fix filter plugins are not been called during preemption ([#81876](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81876), [@wgliang](https://github.com/wgliang))
- Fix an issue that the correct PluginConfig.Args is not passed to the corresponding PluginFactory in kube-scheduler when multiple PluginConfig items are defined. ([#82483](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82483), [@everpeace](https://github.com/everpeace))