- Introduce a churn operator to scheduler perf testing framework. ([#98900](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98900), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

The cri-tools project, which aims to provide consistent tooling for operators to debug and introspect their nodes in production independent of their chosen container runtime, graduated to GA.

### OpenStack

on average) and rapid updates to pod configuration should take effect sooner.
  
  A new metric `kubelet_known_pods` has been added at ALPHA stability to report the number of pods a Kubelet is tracking in a number of internal states.  Operators may use the metrics to track an excess of pods in the orphaned state that may not be completing. ([#113145](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113145), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cloud...

- [Namespaced Brokers](https://svc-cat.io/docs/namespaced-broker-resources/), which enable operators to install a broker into a namespace instead of the cluster level, reached GA.
- The [Service Plan Defaults](https://svc-cat.io/docs/service-plan-defaults/) feature is in alpha and is under active development. This feature gives operators the ability to define defaults for when someone provisions a service.

- github.com/grpc-ecosystem/go-grpc-middleware: cfaf568 → f849b54
- github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway: v1.3.0 → v1.9.5
- github.com/heketi/heketi: v9.0.0+incompatible → c2e2a4a
- github.com/json-iterator/go: v1.1.7 → v1.1.8
- github.com/mailru/easyjson: 94de47d → v0.7.0
- github.com/mattn/go-isatty: v0.0.3 → v0.0.9
- github.com/mindprince/gonvml: fee913c → 9ebdce4
- github.com/mrunalp/fileutils: 4ee1cc9 → 7d4729f

* Switch JSON marshal/unmarshal to json-iterator library.  Performance should be close to previous with no generated code. ([#48287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48287), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

- We no longer allow the cluster operator to delete any suggested priority & fairness bootstrap configuration object. If a cluster operator removes a suggested configuration, it will be restored by the apiserver. ([#102067](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102067), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

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- github.com/ianlancetaylor/demangle: [5e5cf60 → 28f6c0f](https://github.com/ianlancetaylor/demangle/compare/5e5cf60...28f6c0f)
- github.com/json-iterator/go: [v1.1.11 → v1.1.12](https://github.com/json-iterator/go/compare/v1.1.11...v1.1.12)
- github.com/magiconair/properties: [v1.8.1 → v1.8.5](https://github.com/magiconair/properties/compare/v1.8.1...v1.8.5)