enabled.([#51436](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51436))

* [Action required] The validation rule for metadata.initializers.pending[x].name is tightened. The initializer name must contain at least three segments, separated by dots. You can create objects with pending initializers and not rely on the API server to add pending initializers according to `initializerConfiguration`. If you do so, update the initializer name in the existing objects and the configuration files to...

  phase (Succeeded or Failed, depending on the exit statuses of the pod containers) to pods which
  are deleted while running.
  
  This fixes the issue for jobs using pod failure policy (with JobPodFailurePolicy and PodDisruptionConditions 
  feature gates enabled) that their pods could get stuck in the pending phase when deleted.
  

  // The conditions array, the reason and message fields, and the individual container status
  // arrays contain more detail about the pod's status.
  // There are five possible phase values:
  //
  // Pending: The pod has been accepted by the Kubernetes system, but one or more of the
  // container images has not been created. This includes time before being scheduled as

* Upgrade code to use the latest version of Starlette, including:
    * Several bug fixes.
    * Optional redirects of slashes, with or without ending in `/`.
    * Events for routers, `"startup"`, and `"shutdown"`.
    * PR [#1057](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/1057).

- Unlocked the `CSIMigrationvSphere` feature gate. The change allow users to continue using the in-tree vSphere driver,pending a vSphere CSI driver release that has with GA support for Windows, XFS, and raw block access. ([#116396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116396), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42)) [SIG Storage]

### Container Storage Interface graduations

</p>

<h3 id="Channel_types">Channel types</h3>

<p>
A channel provides a mechanism for
<a href="#Go_statements">concurrently executing functions</a>
to communicate by
<a href="#Send_statements">sending</a> and
<a href="#Receive_operator">receiving</a>
values of a specified element type.
The value of an uninitialized channel is <code>nil</code>.
</p>

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- Graduating `pending_pods`, `preemption_attempts_total`, `preemption_victims` and `schedule_attempts_total` metrics to stable. Also `e2e_scheduling_duration_seconds` is renamed to `scheduling_attempt_duration_seconds` and the latter is graduated to stable. ([#105941]...

- Add SourceVolumeMode field to VolumeSnapshotContents. Documentation for this alpha feature is pending. ([#665](https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/pull/665), [@RaunakShah](https://github.com/RaunakShah))
- Update snapshotter module to v6 and client module to v5. Documentation for this alpha feature is pending. ([#670],(https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/external-snapshotter/pull/670), [@RaunakShah](https://github.com/RaunakShah))

- [`KT-55787`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-55787) Deprecate dependsOn edges ending at declared source sets of platform compilations
- [`KT-58872`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-58872) MPP: kotlin-test library reported as published in the legacy mode