TopLevelDecl = Declaration | FunctionDecl | MethodDecl .
</pre>

<p>
The <i>scope</i> of a declared identifier is the extent of source text in which
the identifier denotes the specified constant, type, variable, function, label, or package.
</p>

<p>
Go is lexically scoped using <a href="#Blocks">blocks</a>:
</p>

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## Changelog since v1.9.2

### Action Required

* Bug fix: webhooks now do not skip cluster-scoped resources ([#58185](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58185), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

## Release Notes From SIGs

### SIG API Machinery

- The OwnerReferencesPermissionEnforcement admission plugin now checks authorization for the correct scope (namespaced or cluster-scoped) of the owner resource type. Previously, it always checked permissions at the same scope as the child resource. ([#70389](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70389), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

- It introduces a new scope name `VolumeAttributesClass`. 
  
  It matches all PVC objects that have the volume attributes class mentioned. 
  

### Bug or Regression

- New flag is introduced, i.e. --topology-manager-scope=container|pod. 
  The default value is the "container" scope. ([#92967](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92967), [@cezaryzukowski](https://github.com/cezaryzukowski)) [SIG Instrumentation, Node and Testing]

- Fixed an issue with garbage collection failing to clean up namespaced children of an object also referenced incorrectly by cluster-scoped children ([#98068](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98068), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]

- The scheduler skips the `InterPodAffinity` Score plugin when nothing to do with the Pod.
  It will affect some metrics values related to the InterPodAffinity Score plugin. ([#117794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117794), [@utam0k](https://github.com/utam0k)) [SIG Scheduling]

* Adds a metric apiserver_request_error_total to kube-apiserver. This metric tallies the number of request_errors encountered by verb, group, version, resource, subresource, scope, component, and code. ([#84777](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84777), [@RainbowMango](https://github.com/RainbowMango))

### Not Very Notable (that is, non-user-facing)

- Unit tests have been added for scopes and scope selectors in the quota spec ([#66351](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66351), [@vikaschoudhary16](https://github.com/vikaschoudhary16)) Courtesy of SIG Node, and SIG Scheduling