In the end, the ultimate objective is to be able to **serve your API clients** in a way that is **secure**, to **avoid disruptions**, and to use the **compute resources** (for example remote servers/virtual machines) as efficiently as possible. 🚀

 *     .url("http://publicobject.com/helloworld.txt")
 *     .build();
 * ```
 *
 * If it is only necessary to force a cached response to be validated by the server, use the more
 * efficient `max-age=0` directive instead:
 *
 * ```java
 * Request request = new Request.Builder()
 *     .cacheControl(new CacheControl.Builder()
 *         .maxAge(0, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
 *         .build())

user stories, such as the high availability use cases have been given priority for 1.15.

kubeadm, the cluster lifecycle building block, continues to receive features and stability work required for bootstrapping production clusters efficiently. kubeadm has promoted high availability (HA) capability to beta, allowing users to use the familiar `kubeadm init` and `kubeadm join` commands to [configure and deploy an HA control plane](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment...

inherent in its design. This PR exposes a second, independent pruning alpha powered by a new standard named `ApplySets`. An `ApplySet` is a server-side object (by default, a Secret; ConfigMaps are also allowed) that kubectl can use to accurately and efficiently track set membership across `apply` operations. The format used for `ApplySet` is set out in  [KEP 3659](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/3659) as a low-level specification.  Other tools in the ecosystem can also build on this specification...

- Improved performance of kube-proxy with EndpointSlice enabled with more efficient sorting. ([#83035](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83035), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))

### SIG Multi-cluster (formerly known as SIG Federation)

[SIG Multi-cluster][] is responsible for infrastructure that supports
the efficient and reliable management of multiple Kubernetes clusters,
and applications that run in and across multiple clusters.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Multicluster focussed on expanding the set of

### Synchronous Get ([.kt][SynchronousGetKotlin], [.java][SynchronousGetJava])

Download a file, print its headers, and print its response body as a string.

The `string()` method on response body is convenient and efficient for small documents. But if the response body is large (greater than 1 MiB), avoid `string()` because it will load the entire document into memory. In that case, prefer to process the body as a stream.

- `scheduler`: handling of unschedulable pods because a `ResourceClass` is missing
  is a bit more efficient and no longer relies on periodic retries. ([#120213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120213), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

## Dependencies

### Added
- cloud.google.com/go/dataproc/v2: v2.0.1

   ([#113629](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113629), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))
- 'The iptables kube-proxy backend now process service/endpoint changes
  more efficiently in very large clusters.' ([#110268](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110268), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))
- '`CSIMigrationvSphere` was upgraded to GA and locked to true. Do not upgrade to K8s