- A `create` or `update` API request with duplicate items in a keyed list no longer wipes out managedFields. Examples include env var entries with the same name, or port entries with the same containerPort in a pod spec.
  - A server-side apply request that makes unrelated changes to an object which has duplicate items in a keyed list no longer fails, and leaves the existing duplicate items as-is.

### Container Images

All container images are available as manifest lists and support the described
architectures. It is also possible to pull a specific architecture directly by
adding the "-$ARCH" suffix  to the container image name.

name | architectures
---- | -------------

- Fixes a 1.30.0 regression in openapi descriptions of imagePullSecrets and hostAliases fields to mark the fields used as keys in those lists as either defaulted or required. ([#124694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124694),...

- The synthetic "Bookmark" event for the watch stream requests will now include a new annotation: `kubernetes.io/initial-events-list-blueprint`. THe annotation contains an empty, versioned list that is encoded in the requested format (such as protobuf, JSON, or CBOR), then base64-encoded and stored as a string. ([#127587](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127587), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))...

  `hostAliases` fields to mark the fields used as keys in those lists as either defaulted
  or required. ([#124553](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124553), [@pmalek](https://github.com/pmalek))

- Kubeadm: fix wrong member list reported when removing an etcd member ([#127963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127963), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- 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),...

- Updates `kubectl kustomize` and `kubectl apply -k` to Kustomize v4.5.4 ([#108994](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108994), [@KnVerey](https://github.com/KnVerey))
- When invoked with `-list-images`, the `e2e.test` binary now also lists the images that might be needed for storage tests. ([#108458](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108458), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix list cost estimation in Priority and Fairness for list requests with metadata.name specified. ([#112557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112557), [@marseel](https://github.com/marseel)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Kube-apiserver: `gzip` compression switched from level 4 to level 1 to improve large list call latencies in exchange for higher network bandwidth usage (10-50% higher). This increases the headroom before very large unpaged list calls exceed request timeout limits. ([#112299](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112299), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))