### SIG Scalability

[SIG Scalability][] is responsible for scalability testing, measuring and
improving system performance, and answering questions related to scalability.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Scalability focused on automating large cluster
scalability testing in a continuous integration (CI) environment. The SIG
defined a concrete process for scalability testing, created

  - Debian-iptables to v1.6.7 (#106148, @cpanato) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Failing Test

- Fixes hostpath storage e2e tests within SELinux enabled env (#105788, @Elbehery) [SIG Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- EndpointSlice Mirroring controller now cleans up managed EndpointSlices when a Service selector is added (#106136, @robscott) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]

([#45003](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45003), [@krmayankk](https://github.com/krmayankk))

* Deployments are updated to use (1) a more stable hashing algorithm (fnv) than the previous one (adler) and (2) a hashing collision avoidance mechanism that will ensure new rollouts will not block on hashing collisions anymore. ([#44774](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44774), [@kargakis](https://github.com/kargakis))([kubernetes/features#287](https://github.com/...

### API-machinery

  // or link-local multicast (224.0.0.0/24 or ff02::/16).
  optional string ip = 1;

  // The Hostname of this endpoint
  // +optional
  optional string hostname = 3;

  // Optional: Node hosting this endpoint. This can be used to determine endpoints local to a node.
  // +optional
  optional string nodeName = 4;

  // Reference to object providing the endpoint.
  // +optional

* Update docs for testing FastAPI. Include using `POST`, sending JSON, testing headers, etc. New documentation: [Testing](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/testing/#testing-extended-example). PR [#271](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/271).

#### Updates to existing commands
* Printing and output
  * Import a numeric ordering sorting library and use it in the sorting printer. ([#40746](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40746), [@matthyx](https://github.com/matthyx))

- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.22.8 ([#128129](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128129), [@haitch](https://github.com/haitch)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

of evaluating <a href="#Constant_expressions">constant
expressions</a>.
</p>


<h2 id="Variables">Variables</h2>

<p>
A variable is a storage location for holding a <i>value</i>.
The set of permissible values is determined by the
variable's <i><a href="#Types">type</a></i>.
</p>

<p>
A <a href="#Variable_declarations">variable declaration</a>

- Fix invalid VMSS updates due to incorrect cache ([#89002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89002), [@ArchangelSDY](https://github.com/ArchangelSDY)) [SIG Cloud Provider]