- K8s.io/client-go/tools/record.EventBroadcaster: after Shutdown() is called, the broadcaster now gives up immediately after a failure to write an event to a sink. Previously it tried multiple times for 12 seconds in a goroutine. ([#115514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115514), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery]

	// data to be written into buffer.
	data := "1234567890"
	// seed the random number generator once.
	rand.Seed(3)
	// generate a random number between 13 and 200.
	randInt := getRandomRange(13, 200, -1)
	// write into buffer till length of the buffer is greater than the generated random number.
	for i := 0; i <= randInt; i += 10 {
		buffer.WriteString(data)
	}
	// String content which is used for put object range test.

- Fixed a race condition on API server startup ensuring previously created webhook configurations are effective before the first write request is admitted. ([#95783](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95783), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG API Machinery]

* Active watches of custom resources now terminate properly if the CRD is modified. ([#78029](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78029), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* client-go and kubectl no longer write cached discovery files with world-accessible file permissions ([#77874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77874), [@yuchengwu](https://github.com/yuchengwu))

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## Changelog since v1.22.0

## What's New (Major Themes)

### Deprecation of FlexVolume

FlexVolume is deprecated. Out-of-tree CSI driver is the recommended way to write volume drivers in Kubernetes.
See [this doc](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-storage/volume-plugin-faq.md#kubernetes-volume-plugin-faq-for-storage-vendors) for more information.

- kubeadm: allow mixing the flag --config with the...

* New federation deployment mechanism now allows non-GCP clusters. ([#34620](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34620), [@madhusudancs](https://github.com/madhusudancs))
  * Writes the federation kubeconfig to the local kubeconfig file.
* Update the series and the README to reflect the change. ([#30374](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30374), [@mbruzek](https://github.com/mbruzek))

- client-go and kubectl no longer write cached discovery files with world-accessible file permissions. ([#77874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77874), [@yuchengwu](https://github.com/yuchengwu))

	var rules []lifecycle.Rule
	for _, rule := range rMap {
		rules = append(rules, rule)
	}

	// no rules, return
	if len(rules) == 0 {
		return []byte{}, nil
	}

	// get final list for write
	finalLcCfg := lifecycle.Lifecycle{
		XMLName:         xmlName,
		Rules:           rules,
		ExpiryUpdatedAt: &updatedAt,
	}

	rcfg, err := globalBucketObjectLockSys.Get(bucket)
	if err != nil {