- Fixed a data race in TopologyCache when `AddHints` and `SetNodes` are called concurrently. ([#117249](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117249), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- The job controller back-off logic is now decoupled from workqueue. In case of parallelism > 1, if there are multiple new failures in a reconciliation cycle, all the failures are taken into account to compute the back-off. Previously, the back-off kicked in for all types of failures; with this change, only pod failures are taken into account. If the back-off limits exceeds, the job is marked as failed immediately; before this change, the...

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. 200 */
    String RANK_FUSION_window_size = "rank.fusion.window_size";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. 20 */
    String RANK_FUSION_rank_constant = "rank.fusion.rank_constant";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. -1 */
    String RANK_FUSION_THREADS = "rank.fusion.threads";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. rf_score */

* Fix race causing apiserver crashes during etcd healthchecking ([#60069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60069), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* Increase allowed lag for ssh key sync loop in tunneler to allow for one failure ([#60068](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60068), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Fixed race condition in GCE between containerized mounter setup in the kubelet. ([#112195](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112195), [@mattcary](https://github.com/mattcary))

- Added a new Priority and Fairness metric `apiserver_flowcontrol_request_dispatch_no_accommodation_total` to track the number of times a request dispatch attempt results in a no-accommodation status due to lack of available seats. ([#106629](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106629), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Fixes a race condition in the iptables mode of kube-proxy in 1.27 and later
  that could result in some updates getting lost (e.g., when a service gets a
  new endpoint, the rules for the new endpoint might not be added until

- [`KT-56187`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-56187) K2: type parameter's upper bound is ignored in callable references
- [`KT-56186`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-56186) K2: lack of type arguments in type constructor is ignored in callable references
- [`KT-59356`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-59356) K2: Restrict rules for matching of expect supertypes for actual class

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