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## Introduction {#intro}

Go's emphasis on backwards compatibility is one of its key strengths.
There are, however, times when we cannot maintain complete compatibility.
If code depends on buggy (including insecure) behavior,
then fixing the bug will break that code.

@GwtCompatible
@SuppressWarnings("serial") // we're overriding default serialization
// TODO(kevinb): I think we should push everything down to "BaseImmutableCollection" or something,
// just to do everything we can to emphasize the "practically an interface" nature of this class.
public abstract class ImmutableCollection<E> extends AbstractCollection<E> implements Serializable {
  /*

@GwtCompatible
@SuppressWarnings("serial") // we're overriding default serialization
// TODO(kevinb): I think we should push everything down to "BaseImmutableCollection" or something,
// just to do everything we can to emphasize the "practically an interface" nature of this class.
public abstract class ImmutableCollection<E> extends AbstractCollection<E> implements Serializable {
  /*

- Removing Experimental prefix from the description of kubectl wait to emphasize that it is stable. ([#133731](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133731), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu)) [SIG CLI]