- Added alpha support for asynchronous Pod preemption.
  When the `SchedulerAsyncPreemption` feature gate is enabled, the scheduler now runs API calls to trigger preemptions asynchronously for better performance. ([#128170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128170), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

  }

  public void testReloadAfterFailure() throws ExecutionException {
    AtomicInteger count = new AtomicInteger();
    Exception e = new IllegalStateException("exception to trigger failure on first load()");
    CacheLoader<Integer, String> failOnceFunction =
        new CacheLoader<Integer, String>() {

          @Override
          public String load(Integer key) throws Exception {

                throw new SmbException("Invalid operation for workgroups, servers, or shares");
            }

            if (!sh.isSameTree(th)) {
                // trigger requests to resolve the actual target
                exists();
                dest.exists();

- Ensure Job status updates are batched by 1s. This fixes an unlikely scenario when a sequence of immediately 
  completing pods could trigger a sequence of non-batched Job status updates. ([#118470](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118470), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps]

- Added the `DetectCacheInconsistency` feature gate, allowing the API server to periodically verify consistency between its `cache` and `etcd`. Detected inconsistencies reported via the `apiserver_storage_consistency_checks_total` metric and trigger purging of affected cache snapshots. ([#132884](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132884), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Testing]

        .body("abc")
        .onResponseEnd(ShutdownConnection)
        .build(),
    )
    server.enqueue(
      MockResponse(body = "def"),
    )

    // Send a separate request which will trigger a GOAWAY frame on the healthy connection.
    val response = getResponse(newRequest("/"))
    assertContent("abc", response)

    // Ensure the GOAWAY frame has time to be read and processed.
    Thread.sleep(500)

* Fix a bug where soft eviction would not trigger when the threshold was crossed ([#52046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52046), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

- Revised scheduling behavior to correctly handle nominated node changes. Trigger rescheduling of pods 

- Fixed a bug where a change in the `appProtocol` for a Service did not trigger a load balancer update. ([#113033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113033), [@MartinForReal](https://github.com/MartinForReal)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]

  The well-known annotation `endpoints.kubernetes.io/last-change-trigger-time` is skipped and not mirrored. ([#98116](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98116), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))