- Fixed a bug in kube-scheduler where pending pod preemption caused preemptor pods to be retried more frequently. ([#134247](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134247), [@macsko](https://github.com/macsko)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

* `--feature-gates` argument has been removed from the `kubeadm join` command. Feature gates will be retrieved from the cluster configuration during the join process. ([#70755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70755), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre))

- Promoted `generateName` retries to beta, and made the `NameGenerationRetries` feature gate
  enabled by default.

  }

  private fun testRequestBodySurvivesRetries(transferKind: TransferKind) {
    server.enqueue(MockResponse(body = "abc"))

    // Use a misconfigured proxy to guarantee that the request is retried.
    client =
      client
        .newBuilder()
        .proxySelector(
          FakeProxySelector()
            .addProxy(server2.proxyAddress)
            .addProxy(Proxy.NO_PROXY),
        ).build()

  request optionally sent by the CSI Client from this release onwards. ([#121303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121303), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))
- `NodeStageVolume` calls will now be retried if the CSI node driver is not running. ([#120330](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120330), [@rohitssingh](https://github.com/rohitssingh))

  /** The maximum number of segments to allow; used to bound constructor arguments. */
  static final int MAX_SEGMENTS = 1 << 16; // slightly conservative

  /** Number of (unsynchronized) retries in the containsValue method. */
  static final int CONTAINS_VALUE_RETRIES = 3;

  /**
   * Number of cache access operations that can be buffered per segment before the cache's recency

### Bug or Regression

- Client-go: fixes potential data races retrying requests using a custom io.Reader body; with this fix, only requests with no body or with string / []byte / runtime.Object bodies can be retried ([#113933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113933), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]

* kubectl: improves compatibility with older servers when creating/updating API objects ([#61949](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61949), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Bound cloud allocator to 10 retries with 100 ms delay between retries. ([#61375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61375), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))

var v *T           // v has value nil, static type *T
x = 42             // x has value 42 and dynamic type int
x = v              // x has value (*T)(nil) and dynamic type *T
</pre>

<p>
A variable's value is retrieved by referring to the variable in an
<a href="#Expressions">expression</a>; it is the most recent value
<a href="#Assignment_statements">assigned</a> to the variable.

  - If all QueueingHintFn return QueueSkip, it puts this pod back to the unschedulable pod pool
  
  Having appropriate QueueingHintFn contributes to reducing useless retries and thus improves the overall scheduler's performance.
  
  **How can I migrate?**
  
  For backward compatibility, nil `QueueingHintFn` is treated as always returning QueueAfterBackoff.