</p>


<h3 id="Close">Close</h3>

<p>
For a channel <code>ch</code>, the built-in function <code>close(ch)</code>
records that no more values will be sent on the channel.
It is an error if <code>ch</code> is a receive-only channel.
Sending to or closing a closed channel causes a <a href="#Run_time_panics">run-time panic</a>.
Closing the nil channel also causes a <a href="#Run_time_panics">run-time panic</a>.

### Cloud Provider

- Fixed a bug that caused PV allocation on non-English vSphere installations to fail  ([#73115](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73115), [@alvaroaleman](https://github.com/alvaroaleman))

### Cluster Lifecycle

- Fixed a data race in kubelet image manager that can cause static pod workers to silently stop working. ([#88915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88915), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG Node]

needed. A future release will make the `ErrWaitTimeout` error private and callers must use `Interrupted()` instead. If you are returning `ErrWaitTimeout` from your own methods, switch to creating a location specific `cause err` and pass it to the new method `wait.ErrorInterrupted(cause) error` which will ensure `Interrupted()` returns true for your loop. 
  
  The `wait.NewExponentialBackoffManager` and `wait.NewJitteringBackoffManager` functions have been marked as deprecated.  Callers...

- Dynamic provisions that create iSCSI PVs can now ensure that multipath is used by specifying 2 or more target portals in the PV, which will cause kubelet to wait up to 10 seconds for the multipath device. PVs with just one portal continue to work...

- Fixed a data race in kubelet image manager that can cause static pod workers to silently stop working. ([#88915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88915), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG Node]

- Fixed a data race in kubelet image manager that can cause static pod workers to silently stop working. ([#88915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88915), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG Node]

    * "volume.alpha.kubernetes.io/storage-class" does not have any special meaning. A default storage class
    * and  DefaultStorageClass admission plugin can be used to preserve similar behavior of Kubernetes cluster,
    * see https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/persistent-volumes/#class-1 for details.

- kube-apiserver `--egress-selector-config-file` files were validated strictly (EnableStrict). Duplicate and unknown fields in the configuration will now cause an error. ([#128011](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128011), [@seans3](https://github.com/seans3))...

### Other notable changes

* Kubernetes json deserializer is now case-sensitive to restore compatibility with pre-1.8 servers. ([#65157](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65157), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))
    * If your config files contains fields with wrong case, the config files will be now invalid.