- CRD deep copies should no longer contain shallow copies of `JSONSchemaProps.XValidations`. ([#107956](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107956), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy))

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## Changelog since v1.8.1

### Other notable changes

* Allow for configuring etcd hostname in the manifest ([#54403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54403), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* Allow standard flags in client-gen. ([#53999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53999), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

### Fixes

* 🐛 Allow exit code for dependencies with `yield` to always execute, by removing capacity limiter for them, to e.g. allow closing DB connections without deadlocks. PR [#5122](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/5122) by [@adriangb](https://github.com/adriangb).

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. * */
    String API_CORS_ALLOW_ORIGIN = "api.cors.allow.origin";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. GET, POST, OPTIONS, DELETE, PUT */
    String API_CORS_ALLOW_METHODS = "api.cors.allow.methods";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. 3600 */
    String API_CORS_MAX_AGE = "api.cors.max.age";

- Allow to monitor client-go DNS resolver latencies via `rest_client_dns_resolution_duration_seconds` Prometheus metric. ([#115357](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115357), [@mfojtik](https://github.com/mfojtik))

- Allow-list of metric labels can be configured by supplying a manifest using the --allow-metric-labels-manifest flag ([#118299](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118299), [@rexagod](https://github.com/rexagod)) [SIG Architecture and Instrumentation]

- Enable external plugins can be used as subcommands for kubectl create command if subcommand does not exist as builtin only when KUBECTL_ENABLE_CMD_SHADOW environment variable is exported. ([#116293](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116293), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

  optional string protocol = 2;

  // Error is to record the problem with the service port
  // The format of the error shall comply with the following rules:
  // - built-in error values shall be specified in this file and those shall use
  //   CamelCase names
  // - cloud provider specific error values must have names that comply with the
  //   format foo.example.com/CamelCase.
  // ---

- [`KT-50082`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-50082) Kotlin non-overriding property of subclass doesn't shadow same-named Java field from base class
- [`KT-55822`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-55822) False positive ABSTRACT_CLASS_MEMBER_NOT_IMPLEMENTED with raw types and mixed overridden members