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- **Isolation**: Tests should be isolated to prevent interference between different components and test cases.
- **Scalability**: The test setup should be scalable to accommodate additional tests and components in the future.

## Conclusion

- CephRBD volume plugin ( `kubernetes.io/rbd`) was removed in this release. And its csi migration support was also removed, so the `rbd` volume type became non-functional. Alternative is to use RBD CSI driver (https:/...

- Reduce critical section in watchcache to fix kube-apiserver scalability under heavy load of list requests ([#122027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122027), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

 *       anything about how the property is tested. To find out, read the code.
 *   <li>These tests are "conformance tests", and do not attempt to test throughput, latency,
 *       scalability or other performance factors (see the separate "jtreg" tests for a set intended
 *       to check these for the most central aspects of functionality.) So, most tests use the

 *       anything about how the property is tested. To find out, read the code.
 *   <li>These tests are "conformance tests", and do not attempt to test throughput, latency,
 *       scalability or other performance factors (see the separate "jtreg" tests for a set intended
 *       to check these for the most central aspects of functionality.) So, most tests use the

- Improve PVC Protection Controller's scalability by batch-processing PVCs by namespace with lazy live pod listing. ([#125372](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125372), [@hungnguyen243](https://github.com/hungnguyen243)) [SIG Apps, Node, Storage and Testing]

- Kubelet: changed `MemoryThrottlingFactor` default value to `0.9` and formulas to calculate `memory.high` ([#115371](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115371), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

- Reduce critical section in watchcache to fix kube-apiserver scalability under heavy load of list requests ([#122027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122027), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

            params(name)
            params("${providedBy.size + 1}")
        }
    }

    /**
     * For all modules providing a capability, always use the preferred module, even if there's no conflict.
     * In other words, will forcefully upgrade all modules providing a capability to a selected module.
     *
     * @param to the preferred module
     */
    private