order to a compiler.
</p>

<p>
Dependency analysis does not rely on the actual values of the
variables, only on lexical <i>references</i> to them in the source,
analyzed transitively. For instance, if a variable <code>x</code>'s
initialization expression refers to a function whose body refers to
variable <code>y</code> then <code>x</code> depends on <code>y</code>.
Specifically:
</p>

- Update cri-tools dependency to `v1.21.0`. ([#100956](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100956), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))
- Update dep `google/gnostic` and `google/go-cmp` to v0.5.5 and updating transitive dependencies `protobuf`. ([#102783](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102783), [@mcbenjemaa](https://github.com/mcbenjemaa))