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	Array types are comparable if their array element types are comparable.
	Two array values are equal if their corresponding element values are equal.
	The elements are compared in ascending index order, and comparison stops
	as soon as two element values differ (or all elements have been compared).
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- Improved how the API server responds to **list** requests where the response format negotiates to Protobuf. List responses in Protobuf are marshalled one element at the time, drastically reducing memory needed to serve large collections. Streaming list responses can be disabled via the `StreamingCollectionEncodingToProtobuf` feature gate. ([#129407](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129407), [...

### API Change

* NetworkPolicies can now target specific pods in other namespaces by including both a namespaceSelector and a podSelector in the same peer element. ([#60452](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60452), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

## Changelog since v1.26.1

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

* audit.k8s.io api group is upgraded from v1beta1 to v1. ([#65891](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65891), [@CaoShuFeng](https://github.com/CaoShuFeng))
    * Deprecated element metav1.ObjectMeta and Timestamp are removed from audit Events in v1 version.
    * Default value of option --audit-webhook-version and --audit-log-version will be changed from `audit.k8s.io/v1beta1` to `audit.k8s.io/v1` in release 1.13

- github.com/lucas-clemente/aes12: [cd47fb3](https://github.com/lucas-clemente/aes12/tree/cd47fb3)
- github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-clients: [v0.1.0](https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-clients/tree/v0.1.0)
- github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go-certificates: [d2f8652](https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go-certificates/tree/d2f8652)

## Changelog since v1.7.8

### Other notable changes

* Support German cloud for azure disk mount feature ([#50673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50673), [@clement-buchart](https://github.com/clement-buchart))
* BugFix: Exited containers are not Garbage Collected by the kubelet while the pod is running ([#53167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53167), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

- github.com/lucas-clemente/aes12: [cd47fb3](https://github.com/lucas-clemente/aes12/tree/cd47fb3)
- github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-clients: [v0.1.0](https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-clients/tree/v0.1.0)
- github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go-certificates: [d2f8652](https://github.com/lucas-clemente/quic-go-certificates/tree/d2f8652)

* Support German cloud for azure disk mount feature ([#50673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50673), [@clement-buchart](https://github.com/clement-buchart))
* Fix overlay2 container disk metrics for Docker and CRI-O ([#54827](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54827), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))