- Sometimes, the scheduler incorrectly placed a pod in the "unschedulable" queue instead of the "backoff" queue. This happened when some plugin previously declared the pod as "unschedulable" and then in a later attempt encounters some other error. Scheduling of that pod then got delayed by up to five minutes, after which periodic flushing moved the pod back into the "active" queue. ([#120334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120334), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))...

- Added `SchedulerPopFromBackoffQ` feature gate that is in beta and enabled by default. Improved scheduling queue behavior by popping pods from the backoffQ when the activeQ is empty. This allows to process potentially schedulable pods ASAP, eliminating a penalty effect of the backoff queue. ([#130772](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130772), [@macsko](https://github.com/macsko)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

    - `scheduler_async_api_call_duration_seconds`: histogram of API call execution duration by call type and result
    - `scheduler_pending_async_api_calls`: gauge showing current number of pending API calls in the queue. ([#133120](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133120), [@utam0k](https://github.com/utam0k)) [SIG Release and Scheduling]

- Implement the scheduling framework with `Reserve`, `Prebind`, `Permit`, `Post-bind`, `Queue sort` and `Unreserve` extension points.
([#77567](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77567), [@wgliang](https://github.com/wgliang))

- Implemented scoring for DRA-backed extended resources. ([#134058](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134058), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh)) [SIG Node, Scheduling and Testing]

- Added a `Processing` condition for the `workqueue` API.
  Changed `Shutdown` for the `workqueue` API to wait until the work queue finishes processing all in-flight items. ([#101928](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101928), [@alexanderConstantinescu](https://github.com/alexanderConstantinescu))

pkg syscall (freebsd-386-cgo), func Kevent(int, []Kevent_t, []Kevent_t, *Timespec) (int, error)
pkg syscall (freebsd-386-cgo), func Kill(int, Signal) error
pkg syscall (freebsd-386-cgo), func Kqueue() (int, error)
pkg syscall (freebsd-386-cgo), func Listen(int, int) error
pkg syscall (freebsd-386-cgo), func Lstat(string, *Stat_t) error
pkg syscall (freebsd-386-cgo), func Mkfifo(string, uint32) error

* Making DHCP_OPTION_SET_ID creation optional ([#27278](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27278), [@activars](https://github.com/activars))
* Convert service account token controller to use a work queue ([#23858](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/23858), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Refactor scheduler's framework permit API. ([#83756](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83756), [@hex108](https://github.com/hex108))
- Add incoming pods metrics to scheduler queue. ([#83577](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83577), [@liu-cong](https://github.com/liu-cong))

- Add a deprecated cmd flag for the time interval between flushing pods from unschedulable queue to active queue or backoff queue. ([#108017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108017), [@denkensk](https://github.com/denkensk))