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- Fixed fake client to accept request without metadata.name to better emulate behavior of actual client. ([#126727](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126727), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

- Fixes a bug evicting pods after a taint with a limited tolerationSeconds toleration is removed from a node ([#93722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93722), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Apps and Node]

- Fixed stale SMB mount issue when SMB file share is deleted and then unmounted. ([#121851](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121851), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Fixed the bug where images that were pinned by the container runtime could be garbage collected by `kubelet`. ([#119986](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119986), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao))

   *
   * <p>The exact C++ equivalent is the MurmurHash3_x86_32 function (Murmur3A).
   *
   * <p>This method is called {@code murmur3_32_fixed} because it fixes a bug in the {@code
   * HashFunction} returned by the original {@code murmur3_32} method.
   *
   * @since 31.0
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("IdentifierName") // the best we could do for adjacent digit blocks

- Fixed a 1.28 regression around restarting init containers in the right order relative to normal containers ([#120440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120440), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Fixed error handling in `EnsureAdminClusterRoleBindingImpl`.
   ([#122893](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122893), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))
- Fixed incorrect error logging for `syncCronJob`.
   ([#122493](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122493), [@mengjiao-liu](https://github.com/mengjiao-liu))

_2023-12-17_

We took too long to cut this release and there's a lot of changes in it. We've been busy.

Although this release is labeled _alpha_, the only unstable thing in it is our new APIs. This
release has many critical bug fixes and is safe to run in production. We're eager to stabilize our
new APIs so we can get out of alpha.

 *  New: Support Java 21's virtual threads (‘OpenJDK Project Loom’). We changed OkHttp's internals

   *
   * <p>The exact C++ equivalent is the MurmurHash3_x86_32 function (Murmur3A).
   *
   * <p>This method is called {@code murmur3_32_fixed} because it fixes a bug in the {@code
   * HashFunction} returned by the original {@code murmur3_32} method.
   *
   * @since 31.0
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("IdentifierName") // the best we could do for adjacent digit blocks

     * including in MapRetrievalCache, so I'm not sure why this one is different. I did at least
     * confirm that my change to MapIteratorCache fixes the TSAN error in the (larger) test it was
     * originally reported in.
     */
    for (Future<?> future : futures.build()) {
      future.get();
    }
    executor.shutdown();
  }