- Fix job controller syncs: In case of conflicts, ensure that the sync happens with the most up to date information. Improves reliability of JobTrackingWithFinalizers. ([#105214](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105214), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))

		return nil
	}
	*d = doc
	return nil
}

// key options
type options struct {
	ttl int64 // expiry in seconds
}

type iamWatchEvent struct {
	isCreated bool // !isCreated implies a delete event.
	keyPath   string
}

// iamCache contains in-memory cache of IAM data.
type iamCache struct {
	updatedAt time.Time

	// map of policy names to policy definitions

- Fixed an issue in register-gen where imports for k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime and k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema were missing. ([#130392](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130392), [@mrIncompetent](https://github.com/mrIncompetent)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Exposes and sets a default timeout for the SubjectAccessReview client for DelegatingAuthorizationOptions ([#95725](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95725), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

            if (this.transportContext.getConfig().isStrictResourceLifecycle()) {
                th.close();
            } else {
                // Let connection pooling handle cleanup - this improves performance
                // for scenarios where the same file or directory is accessed multiple times
                log.trace("Tree handle released to connection pool for reuse");

  EXPECT_TRUE(deallocator_called);
}

void NoOpDeallocator(void* data, size_t, void*) {}

TEST(CAPI, MalformedTensor) {
  // See https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/7394
  // num_dims = 0 implies a scalar, so should be backed by at least 4 bytes of
  // data.
  TF_Tensor* t =
      TF_NewTensor(TF_FLOAT, nullptr, 0, nullptr, 0, &NoOpDeallocator, nullptr);
  ASSERT_TRUE(t == nullptr);
}

* kubeadm: remove the deprecated "--address" flag for controller-manager and scheduler. ([#71973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71973), [@MalloZup](https://github.com/MalloZup))
* kube-apiserver: improves performance of requests made with service account token authentication ([#71816](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71816), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- AcceleratorStats will be available in the Summary API of kubelet when cri_stats_provider is used. ([#97017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97017), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao)) [SIG Node]
- Exposes and sets a default timeout for the SubjectAccessReview client for DelegatingAuthorizationOptions ([#95910](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95910), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

#### **Hardware Accelerators**

*   Kubelet now exposes metrics for NVIDIA GPUs attached to the containers. ([#55188](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55188),[ @mindprince](https://github.com/mindprince))

- Improves scheduler performance when no scoring plugins are defined. ([#122058](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122058), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska)) [SIG Scheduling]