- Promoted several endpointslice metrics from Alpha to Beta stability. ([#136368](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/136368), [@bhope](https://github.com/bhope)) [SIG Instrumentation and Network]

wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud.
`I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.  Let
me see:  that would be four thousand miles down, I think--' (for,
you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her
lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good
opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to
listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) `--yes,

wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud.
`I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.  Let
me see:  that would be four thousand miles down, I think--' (for,
you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her
lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good
opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to
listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) `--yes,

            dict[str, str | Any] | None,
            Doc(
                """
                A dictionary with the contact information for the exposed API.

                It can contain several fields.

                * `name`: (`str`) The name of the contact person/organization.
                * `url`: (`str`) A URL pointing to the contact information. MUST be in
                    the format of a URL.

 * ways similar to {@link FluentFuture}s:
 *
 * <ul>
 *   <li>by transforming the value from a successful input step,
 *   <li>by catching the exception from a failed input step, or
 *   <li>by combining the results of several input steps.
 * </ul>
 *
 * Each derivation can capture the next value or any intermediate objects for later closing.
 *
 * <p>A step can be the input to at most one derived step. Once you transform its value, catch its

      this.future = future;
      this.name = name;
      this.finisher = finisher;
    }
  }

  /**
   * A collection of several futures, covering cancellation, success, and failure (both {@link
   * ExecutionException} and {@link RuntimeException}), both immediate and delayed. We use each

      this.future = future;
      this.name = name;
      this.finisher = finisher;
    }
  }

  /**
   * A collection of several futures, covering cancellation, success, and failure (both {@link
   * ExecutionException} and {@link RuntimeException}), both immediate and delayed. We use each

* Caching added to the OIDC client auth plugin to fix races and reduce the time kubectl commands using this plugin take by several seconds. ([#38167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38167), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

-->

<!--
  | Improvements:
  |
  | o add specification element to a field, this would be more a technical description of
  |   what is allowed in the field.
  |
  | o validators: there could be several levels of validation. Simple type validation could
  |   be done with a regex, but we need inter-field validation and rules which could be
  |   dealt with by something like drools.
  |

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