* plus is placed in a defer call so the locking is effectively
    * nonexistent.  This patch adds an anonymous function call inside
    * the loop to correctly handle acquiring the write lock with deferred
    * unlock to run at that function's completion, following the normal
    * golang lock/deferred-unlock pattern.

    *  - vSphere cloud provider (VCP) uses OS hostname and not vSphere Inventory VM Name.
    *    That means, now  VCP can handle cases where user changes VM inventory name.
    * - VCP can handle cases where VM migrates to other ESXi cluster or datacenter or vCenter.
    * The only requirement is the shared storage. VCP needs shared storage on all Node VMs.

- Fixes a rare race condition handling requests that timeout ([#107460](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107460), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Mount-utils: Detect potential stale file handle ([#107040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107040), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Made `apiextensions-apiserver` binary linking static (also affects the deb and rpm packages). ([#114226](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114226), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

           Shell2Junit License Information

Feb, 2010

shell2junit library and sample code is licensed under Apache License, v.2.0.

(c) 2009 Manolo Carrasco (Manuel Carrasco Moñino)

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- Fix etcd_object_counts metric reported by kube-apiserver ([#94817](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94817), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Fix kubectl printer to correctly handle timestamps of events emitted using events.k8s.io API ([#90227](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90227), [@gosoon](https://github.com/gosoon)) [SIG CLI]

* Fix kubelet to correctly umounts mount points for glusterfs when transport endpoint is not connected and nfs when there is a stale file handle ([#58660](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58660), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))
* Detach and clear bad disk URI ([#58345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58345), [@rootfs](https://github.com/rootfs))

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