- Revert kubelet prober metrics `pod` tag to include actual pod name ([#118549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118549), [@a7i](https://github.com/a7i)) [SIG Node]
- Update kube-apiserver's priority & fairness work estimator such that 'max seats' is MIN(0.15 x nominalCL, nominalCL / handSize)
  

- In the API Priority and Fairness feature, priority levels that are exempt from limitation can now be given a nominal and a lendable concurrency and their dispatching borrows from the concurrency limits of the other priority levels.  For details see https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-api-machinery/1040-priority-and-fairness#dispatching . ([#118782](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118782), [@Mik...

## Changelog since v1.18.18

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- We have added a new Priority & Fairness rule that exempts all probes (/readyz, /healthz, /livez) to prevent 

- Priority and Fairness feature is now `stable`, the feature gate will be removed in `v1.31`. ([#121638](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121638), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

## Changelog since v1.19.10

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- We have added a new Priority & Fairness rule that exempts all probes (/readyz, /healthz, /livez) to prevent 

- API Priority and Fairness feature was promoted to GA in 1.29, the corresponding 

### Scheduling

- Improved fairness of the scheduling queue by placing pods which are attempted recently behind other pods with the same priority. ([#73700](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73700), [@denkensk](https://github.com/denkensk))

  private final AtomicReference<Throwable> threadFailure = new AtomicReference<>(null);

  /**
   * Records an exception so that it can be rethrown later in the test harness thread, triggering a
   * test case failure. Only the first failure is recorded; subsequent calls to this method from
   * within the same test have no effect.
   */
  public void threadRecordFailure(Throwable t) {

     * plexus-classworlds jar and possibly javaagent classes, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-4747.
     * <p>
     * Using ClassWorld to determine plugin/extensions realm parent classloaders gives m2e and integration test harness
     * flexibility to load multiple version of maven into dedicated classloaders without assuming state of jvm system
     * classloader.
     */

- We have added a new Priority & Fairness rule that exempts all probes (/readyz, /healthz, /livez) to prevent