- Fix availability set cache in vmss cache ([#100110](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100110), [@CecileRobertMichon](https://github.com/CecileRobertMichon)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix how nulls are handled in array and objects in [json patches](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch). ([#102467](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102467), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

        if (opLambda != null) {
            opLambda.callback(builder);
        }
    }

    public void setId_NotEqual(String id) {
        setId_NotTerm(id, null);
    }

    public void setId_NotTerm(String id) {
        setId_NotTerm(id, null);
    }

    public void setId_NotEqual(String id, ConditionOptionCall<BoolQueryBuilder> opLambda) {

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* API fields that previously serialized null arrays as `null` and empty arrays as `[]` no longer distinguish between those values and always output `[]` when serializing to JSON. ([#43422](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43422), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Protobuf serialization does not distinguish between `[]` and `null`. ([#45294](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45294), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- kubeadm: remove the AuditPolicyConfiguration feature gate ([#70807](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70807), [@Klaven](https://github.com/Klaven))
- kubeadm pre-pulls Etcd image only if external Etcd is not used and --etcd-upgrade=false is not specified ([#70743](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70743), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))

API fields previously capable of storing and returning either `[]` and `null` via JSON API requests (for example, the Endpoints `subsets` field)
can now store only `null` when created using the protobuf content-type or stored in etcd using protobuf serialization (the default in 1.6).

- Kubelet: a "maxParallelImagePulls" field can now be specified in the kubelet configuration file to control how many image pulls the kubelet can perform in parallel. ([#115220](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115220), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao)) [SIG API Machinery, Node and Scalability]

- CRDs: For structural schemas, non-nullable null map fields will now be dropped and defaulted if a default is available. null items in the list will continue being preserved, and fail validation if not nullable. ([#95423](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95423), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG API Machinery]...

* Protobuf serialization does not distinguish between `[]` and `null`. ([#45294](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45294), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))