*  Fix: Recover gracefully when a cached response is corrupted on disk.

 *  Fix: Don't leak file handles when a cache disk write fails.

 *  Fix: Don't hang when the public suffix database cannot be loaded. We had a bug where a failure
    reading the public suffix database would cause subsequent reads to hang when they should have
    crashed.

- `kubeadm`: fixed a bug where the uploaded kubelet configuration in `kube-system/kubelet-config` `ConfigMap` does not respect user patch ([#115575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115575), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

    result = Maps.fromProperties(testProp);
    assertEquals("true", result.get("first"));
    assertEquals("null", result.get("second"));
    assertEquals(2, result.size());

    // Now test values loaded from a stream.
    String props = "test\n second = 2\n Third item :   a short  phrase   ";

    testProp.load(new StringReader(props));

    result = Maps.fromProperties(testProp);

- Added the `SizeBasedListCostEstimate` feature gate (enabled by default), which changes how APF seats are assigned to `LIST` requests. With this feature, one seat is assigned per 100KB of data loaded into memory at once during a `LIST` operation. ([#132932](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132932), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

* Performance test framework and basic tests for the IPAM controller, to simulate behavior of the four supported modes under lightly loaded and loaded conditions, where load is defined as the number of operations to perform as against the configured kubernetes. ([#61143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61143), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))

- DRA: scheduling pods is up to 16x faster, depending on the scenario. Scheduling throughput depends a lot on cluster utilization. It is higher for lightly loaded clusters with free resources and gets lower when the cluster utilization increases. ([#127277](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127277), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Architecture, Auth, Etcd, Instrumentation,...

precise image pull policy specification for master nodes and thus for more tight control over images. It is useful in CI environments and in environments, where the user has total control over master VM templates (thus, the master VM templates can be preloaded with the required Docker images for the control plane services). ([#58960](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58960), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))

* Fixed issue with charm upgrades resulting in an error state. ([#5...

- Applied resources from a directory containing kustomization.yaml ([#74140](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74140), [@Liujingfang1](https://github.com/Liujingfang1))

- Kubeadm now prints warnings instead of throwing errors if the current system time is outside of the NotBefore and NotAfter bounds of a loaded certificate.  ([#94504](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94504), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

    /** Whether to use pipelines for document processing */
    protected boolean usePipeline = false;

    /**
     * Adds an index configuration file path to be loaded.
     *
     * @param path path to the index configuration file
     */
    public void addIndexConfig(final String path) {
        indexConfigList.add(path);
    }

    /**