- Fixed a suboptimal scheduler preemption behavior where potential preemption victims were violating Pod Disruption Budgets. ([#128435](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128435), [@NoicFank](https://github.com/NoicFank)) [SIG Scheduling]

## Dependencies

### Added

// TFE_ContextUpdateServerDefWithTimeout to be simple wrappers around the same
// C++ function.
// Retries are used for CreateContext calls, which is used in
// ParameterServerStrategy initialization to be robust to worker preemption.
TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern void TFE_ContextSetServerDefWithTimeoutAndRetries(
    TFE_Context* ctx, int keep_alive_secs, const void* proto, size_t proto_len,
    int64_t init_timeout_in_ms, int retries, TF_Status* status,

    int64_t init_timeout_in_ms, TF_Status* status,
    bool clear_existing_contexts);

// Set server def with retries and timeout. This is helpful for fault-tolerant
// initial connection in high-preemption environments, such as
// ParameterServerStrategy training.
// This API is for experimental usage and may be subject to change.
TF_CAPI_EXPORT extern void TFE_ContextSetServerDefWithTimeoutAndRetries(

Pod Priority and Preemption in Kubernetes ([#564](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/564))

DeploymentUpdate: type: RollingUpdate maxUnavailable: 0 maxSurge: 100% ## Update strategy for StatefulSets StatefulSetUpdate: updateStrategy: RollingUpdate ## Pod priority settings ## ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption/ ## priorityClassName: "" ## Set default rootUser, rootPassword ## AccessKey and secretKey is generated when not set ## Distributed MinIO ref: https://docs.minio.io/docs/distributed-minio-quickstart-guide ## rootUser: "" rootPassword: "" ## Use...

* Allow for watching objects larger than 1MB given etcd accepts objects of size up to 1.5MB ([#72053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72053), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* Improve efficiency of preemption logic in clusters with many pending pods. ([#72895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72895), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))



# v1.12.5

[Documentation](https://docs.k8s.io)

- Fixed a suboptimal scheduler preemption behavior where potential preemption victims were violating Pod Disruption Budgets. ([#128434](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128434), [@NoicFank](https://github.com/NoicFank)) [SIG Scheduling]

## Dependencies

### Added

DeploymentUpdate: type: RollingUpdate maxUnavailable: 0 maxSurge: 100% ## Update strategy for StatefulSets StatefulSetUpdate: updateStrategy: RollingUpdate ## Pod priority settings ## ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption/ ## priorityClassName: "" ## Set default rootUser, rootPassword ## AccessKey and secretKey is generated when not set ## Distributed MinIO ref: https://docs.minio.io/docs/distributed-minio-quickstart-guide ## rootUser: "" rootPassword: "" ## Use...

DeploymentUpdate: type: RollingUpdate maxUnavailable: 0 maxSurge: 100% ## Update strategy for StatefulSets StatefulSetUpdate: updateStrategy: RollingUpdate ## Pod priority settings ## ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption/ ## priorityClassName: "" ## Set default rootUser, rootPassword ## AccessKey and secretKey is generated when not set ## Distributed MinIO ref: https://docs.minio.io/docs/distributed-minio-quickstart-guide ## rootUser: "" rootPassword: "" ## Use...

DeploymentUpdate: type: RollingUpdate maxUnavailable: 0 maxSurge: 100% ## Update strategy for StatefulSets StatefulSetUpdate: updateStrategy: RollingUpdate ## Pod priority settings ## ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/pod-priority-preemption/ ## priorityClassName: "" ## Set default rootUser, rootPassword ## AccessKey and secretKey is generated when not set ## Distributed MinIO ref: https://docs.minio.io/docs/distributed-minio-quickstart-guide ## rootUser: "" rootPassword: "" ## Use...