of the variable.
</p>

<h3 id="Handling_panics">Handling panics</h3>

<p> Two built-in functions, <code>panic</code> and <code>recover</code>,
assist in reporting and handling <a href="#Run_time_panics">run-time panics</a>
and program-defined error conditions.
</p>

<pre class="grammar">
func panic(interface{})
func recover() interface{}
</pre>

<p>

* Fix a scheduler panic due to internal cache inconsistency ([#71063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71063), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
* apiserver: fixes handling and logging of panics in REST handlers to prevent crashes ([#71076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Fix a scheduler panic due to internal cache inconsistency ([#71063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71063), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
* apiserver: fixes handling and logging of panics in REST handlers to prevent crashes ([#71076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* kubectl: fixes regression in --sort-by behavior ([#71805](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71805), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Fixes apiserver nil pointer panics when requesting v2beta1 autoscaling object metrics ([#71744](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71744), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882))

* apiserver: fixes handling and logging of panics in REST handlers to prevent crashes ([#71076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Bug or Regression

- EndpointSlice Mirroring controller now cleans up managed EndpointSlices when a Service selector is added (#106136, @robscott) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]
- Fix concurrent map access causing panics when logging timed-out API calls. (#106124, @marseel) [SIG API Machinery]
- Support more than 100 disk mounts on Windows (#105673, @andyzhangx) [SIG Storage and Windows]

## Dependencies

### Added

- Fix a bug that `--disabled-metrics` doesn't function well. (#105793, @Huang-Wei) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]
- Fix a panic in kubectl when creating secrets with an improper output type (#106356, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]
- Fix concurrent map access causing panics when logging timed-out API calls. (#106112, @marseel) [SIG API Machinery]

* Add aggregator_unavailable_apiservice_{count,gauge} metrics in the kube-aggregator. ([#71380](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71380), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* Fixes apiserver nil pointer panics when requesting v2beta1 autoscaling object metrics ([#71744](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71744), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882))

- Fix a bug that `--disabled-metrics` doesn't function well. (#106391, @Huang-Wei) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]
- Fix a panic in kubectl when creating secrets with an improper output type (#106354, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]
- Fix concurrent map access causing panics when logging timed-out API calls. (#106113, @marseel) [SIG API Machinery]
- Fixed very rare volume corruption when a pod is deleted while kubelet is offline.

* [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump version of fluentd-gcp to 2.0.18 to include latest security fixes. ([#67693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67693), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))
* Return apiserver panics as 500 errors instead terminating the apiserver process. ([#68001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68001), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))