- 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]

control plane components as non-root users. This is a long requested security measure in kubeadm. To try it you must enable the kubeadm-specific `RootlessControlPlane` feature gate. When you deploy a cluster using this alpha feature, your control plane runs with lower privileges.

A new [v1beta3 configuration API](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/issues/1796). It [iterates over v1beta2](https://pkg.go.dev/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/v1beta3) by adding some long requested...

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- A new extension point `PostFilter` is introduced to scheduler framework which runs after Filter phase to resolve scheduling filter failures. A typical implementation is running preemption logic. ([#91314](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91314), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]...

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on the kubelet performing the TLS Bootstrap properly. Earlier, `kubeadm join` only did the discovery part and exited successfully without checking that the kubelet actually started properly and performed the TLS bootstrap correctly. Now, as kubeadm runs some post-join steps (for example, annotating the Node API object with the CRISocket), `kubeadm join` is now waiting for the kubelet to perform the TLS Bootstrap, and then uses that credential to perform further actions. This also improves the UX,...

- Integration testing now takes periodic Prometheus scrapes from the etcd server.
  There is a new script ,`hack/run-prometheus-on-etcd-scrapes.sh`, that runs a containerized Prometheus server against an archive of such scrapes. ([#106190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106190), [@MikeSpreitzer](https://github.com/MikeSpreitzer)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Resolved a bug where DaemonSet updates unnecessarily triggered duplicate validation due to overlapping calls to `ValidateDaemonSet` and ValidateDaemonSetUpdate. This redundancy has been removed to prevent repeated validation runs. ([#132548](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132548), [@gavinkflam](https://github.com/gavinkflam))

- Promoted `whoami` kubectl command. ([#116510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116510), [@nabokihms](https://github.com/nabokihms))
- Scheduler no longer runs the plugin's `Filter` method when its `PreFilter` method returned a Skip status.
  In other words, your `PreFilter`/`Filter` plugin can return a Skip status in `PreFilter` if the plugin does nothing in Filter for that Pod.

    * Introduce a RuntimeClass v1beta1 API. This new beta API renames `runtimeHandler` to `handler`, makes it a required field, and cuts out the spec (handler is a top-level field).