- [`KT-54047`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-54047) Partial linkage: reference to removed enum const causes JS fail with "IllegalStateException: Validation failed in file"

needed. A future release will make the `ErrWaitTimeout` error private and callers must use `Interrupted()` instead. If you are returning `ErrWaitTimeout` from your own methods, switch to creating a location specific `cause err` and pass it to the new method `wait.ErrorInterrupted(cause) error` which will ensure `Interrupted()` returns true for your loop. 
  
  The `wait.NewExponentialBackoffManager` and `wait.NewJitteringBackoffManager` functions have been marked as deprecated.  Callers...

### Cloud Provider

- Fixed a bug that caused PV allocation on non-English vSphere installations to fail  ([#73115](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73115), [@alvaroaleman](https://github.com/alvaroaleman))

### Cluster Lifecycle

- Fixed a data race in kubelet image manager that can cause static pod workers to silently stop working. ([#88915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88915), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG Node]

  Don't use these flags. Using deprecated flags causes the server to print a warning. Using a removed flag causes the server to abort the startup.

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kubelet`:

  * `api-servers` - add apiserver addresses to the kubeconfig file instead.

  Don't use these flags. Using deprecated flags causes the kubelet to print a warning. Using a removed flag causes the kubelet to abort the startup.

* Fix kube-controller-manager panic while provisioning Azure security group rules ([#64739](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64739), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fix regression in `v1.JobSpec.backoffLimit` that caused failed Jobs to be restarted indefinitely. ([#63650](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63650), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

Test, junit.framework.AssertionFailedError); } org/junit/internal/runners/ErrorReportingRunner.class package org.junit.internal.runners; public synchronized class ErrorReportingRunner extends org.junit.runner.Runner { private final java.util.List causes; private final String classNames; public void ErrorReportingRunner(Class, Throwable); public transient void ErrorReportingRunner(Throwable, Class[]); public org.junit.runner.Description getDescription(); public void run(org.junit.runner.notification.RunNotifier);...

to by <code>x</code>.
If <code>x</code> is <code>nil</code>, an attempt to evaluate <code>*x</code>
will cause a <a href="#Run_time_panics">run-time panic</a>.
</p>

<pre>
&amp;x
&amp;a[f(2)]
&amp;Point{2, 3}
*p
*pf(x)

var x *int = nil
*x   // causes a run-time panic
&amp;*x  // causes a run-time panic
</pre>


<h3 id="Receive_operator">Receive operator</h3>

<p>

- Fixed a bug that causes smaller number of conntrack-max being used under CPU static policy. (#99225, @xh4n3) ([#99613](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99613), [@xh4n3](https://github.com/xh4n3)) [SIG Network]

* cloudprovider/openstack: fix bug the tries to use octavia client to query flip ([#59075](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59075), [@jrperritt](https://github.com/jrperritt))
* Fixed a bug which caused the apiserver reboot failure in the presence of malfunctioning webhooks. ([#59073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59073), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))