the same array length.</li>

	<li>Two slice types are identical if they have identical element types.</li>

	<li>Two struct types are identical if they have the same sequence of fields,
	    and if corresponding pairs of fields have the same names, identical types,
	    and identical tags, and are either both embedded or both not embedded.

- Implemented opportunistic batching (KEP-5598) to optimize scheduling for pods with identical scheduling requirements. ([#135231](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135231), [@bwsalmon](https://github.com/bwsalmon)) [SIG Node, Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

 
## Changes by Kind

### Deprecation

- Changed `kubectl version` default output to be identical to what `kubectl version --short` printed,
  and removed `--short` flag entirely. ([#116720](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116720), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

  eat your data, it may nibble at it a bit. (It passes e2e testing but has
  not yet seen real-world use.)
  
  At this point it should be functionally mostly identical to the iptables
  mode, except that it does not (and will not) support Service NodePorts on
  127.0.0.1. (Also note that there are currently no command-line arguments

* GCE: Update cloud provider to use TPU v1 API ([#64727](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64727), [@yguo0905](https://github.com/yguo0905))
* GCE: Bump GLBC version to 1.1.1 - fixing an issue of handling multiple certs with identical certificates. ([#62751](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62751), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

### SIG Instrumentation

- Fixed a bug in CEL's common.UnstructuredToVal where `==` evaluates to false for identical objects when a field is present but the value is null.  This bug does not impact the Kubernetes API. ([#131559](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131559), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Kubeadm: add a new `output/v1alpha2` API that is identical to the `output/v1alpha1`, but attempts to resolve some internal dependencies with the `kubeadm/v1beta2` API. The `output/v1alpha1` API is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. ([#105295](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105295),...

- Scheduler now ignores Pod update events if the resourceVersion of old and new Pods are identical. ([#96071](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96071), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

smaller chunks. A client can specify a limit to the number of results to return. If more results exist, a token is returned that allows the client to continue the previous list call repeatedly until all results are retrieved.  The resulting list is identical to a list call that does not perform chunking, thanks to capabilities provided by etcd3.  This allows the server to use less memory and CPU when very large lists are returned. This feature is gated as APIListChunking and is not enabled by default....

chunks.  A client can specify a limit to the number of results to return, and if more results exist a token will be returned that allows the client to continue the previous list call repeatedly until all results are retrieved.  The resulting list is identical to a list call that does not perform chunking thanks to capabilities provided by etcd3.  This allows the server to use less memory and CPU responding with very large lists.  This feature is gated as APIListChunking and is not enabled by default....