* Meta data of CustomResources is now pruned and schema checked during deserialization of requests and when read from etcd. In the former case, invalid meta data is rejected, in the later it is dropped from the CustomResource objects. ([#64267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64267), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))...

- [`KT-59768`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-59768) kotlinx.serialization + K2 + JS/Native: Support meta-annotations on sealed interfaces with user-defined companions

### Tools. Gradle

#### New Features

- OpenAPI will no longer duplicate these schemas:
  - `io.k8s.apimachinery.pkg.apis.meta.v1.DeleteOptions_v2`
  - `io.k8s.apimachinery.pkg.apis.meta.v1.ObjectMeta_v2`
  - `io.k8s.apimachinery.pkg.apis.meta.v1.OwnerReference_v2`
  - `io.k8s.apimachinery.pkg.apis.meta.v1.StatusDetails_v2`

- Expose a `NewUnstructuredExtractor` from apply configurations `meta/v1` package that enables extracting objects into unstructured apply configurations. ([#103564](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103564), [@kevindelgado](https://github.com/kevindelgado))

- Fix k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/meta.SetStatusCondition to update ObservedGeneration ([#95961](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95961), [@KnicKnic](https://github.com/KnicKnic)) [SIG API Machinery]

the metadata (the `metadata` sub-section) from resources on the cluster in an efficient manner for use cases that deal with objects generically, like the garbage collector, quota, or the namespace controller. The client asks the server to return a `meta.k8s.io/v1 PartialObjectMetadata` object for list, get, delete, watch, and patch operations on both normal APIs and custom resources which can be encoded in protobuf for additional work. If the server does not yet support this API the client will gracefully...

  optional string message = 4;

  // Time at which previous execution of the container started
  // +optional
  optional k8s.io.apimachinery.pkg.apis.meta.v1.Time startedAt = 5;

  // Time at which the container last terminated
  // +optional
  optional k8s.io.apimachinery.pkg.apis.meta.v1.Time finishedAt = 6;

  // Container's ID in the format '<type>://<container_id>'
  // +optional
  optional string containerID = 7;
}

* The `meta.k8s.io/v1alpha1` objects for retrieving tabular responses from the server (`Table`) or fetching just the `ObjectMeta` for an object (as `PartialObjectMetadata`) are now beta as part of `meta.k8s.io/v1beta1`.  Clients may request alternate representations of normal Kubernetes objects by passing an `Accept` header like `application/json;as=Table;g=meta.k8s.io;v=v1beta1` or `application/json;as=PartialObjectMetadata;g=meta.k8s.io;v1=v1beta1`....

- Promoted meta.k8s.io/v1beta1 Table and PartialObjectMetadata to v1. ([#77136](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77136), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

  `container_memory_working_set_bytes`
  `scrape_error`
  ([#84987](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84987), [@RainbowMango](https://github.com/RainbowMango))
- Deprecated prometheus request meta-metrics have been removed
 `http_request_duration_microseconds` `http_request_duration_microseconds_sum` `http_request_duration_microseconds_count`
 `http_request_size_bytes`
 `http_request_size_bytes_sum`