- Fixed a bug that prevents kubectl to validate CRDs with schema using x-kubernetes-preserve-unknown-fields on object fields.
  Fix kubectl SchemaError on CRDs with schema using x-kubernetes-preserve-unknown-fields on array types. ([#96563](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96563), [@gautierdelorme](https://github.com/gautierdelorme)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- The metadata.clusterName field is deprecated. This field has always been unwritable and always blank, but its presence is confusing, so we will remove it next release. Out of an abundance of caution, this release we have merely changed the name in the go struct to ensure any accidental client uses are found before complete removal. ([#108717](https://github.com/...

- Fixed a bug that prevents kubectl to validate CRDs with schema using x-kubernetes-preserve-unknown-fields on object fields. ([#96369](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96369), [@gautierdelorme](https://github.com/gautierdelorme)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

For more information, see [#51899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/51899).

* Minikube version 0.22.2 or lower does not work with kubectl version 1.8 or higher. This issue is caused by the presence of an unregistered type in the minikube API server. New versions of kubectl force validate the OpenAPI schema, which is not registered with all known types in the minikube API server.

* Fixed a bug which caused the apiserver reboot failure in the presence of malfunctioning webhooks. ([#59073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59073), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

* Configurable etcd compaction frequency in GCE ([#59106](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59106), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

* Fixed a bug which caused the apiserver reboot failure in the presence of malfunctioning webhooks. ([#59073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59073), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

- Failure to start a container cannot accidentally result in the pod being considered "Succeeded" in the presence of deletion. ([#108882](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108882), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips)) [SIG Node]

- Failure to start a container cannot accidentally result in the pod being considered "Succeeded" in the presence of deletion. ([#108883](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108883), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips)) [SIG Node]

* [IPVS] Introduces flag ipvs-strict-arp to configure stricter ARP sysctls, defaulting to false to preserve existing behaviors. This was enabled by default in 1.13.0, which impacted a few CNI plugins. ([#75295](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75295), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

The declaration order of variables declared in multiple files is determined
by the order in which the files are presented to the compiler: Variables
declared in the first file are declared before any of the variables declared
in the second file, and so on.
To ensure reproducible initialization behavior, build systems are encouraged
to present multiple files belonging to the same package in lexical file name
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