- Kubeadm: improve the strict parsing of user YAML/JSON configuration files. Next to printing warnings for unknown and duplicate fields (current state), also print warnings for fields with incorrect case sensitivity - e.g. `controlPlaneEndpoint` (valid), `ControlPlaneEndpoint` (invalid). Instead of only printing warnings during `init` and `join` also print warnings when downloading the ClusterConfiguration, KubeletConfiguration or KubeProxyConfiguration...

- Improved scheduling latency when many gated pods ([#124849](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124849), [@gabesaba](https://github.com/gabesaba)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]
- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.28 regression printing pods with invalid initContainer status ([#124909](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124909), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Node]

- K8s.io/component-base/logs: usage of the pflag values in a normal Go flag set led to panics when printing the help message ([#114680](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114680), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Instrumentation]

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Lizard as she spoke.  (The unfortunate little Bill had left off
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     * @return the Path object pointing to the classes directory
     */
    public static Path getClassesPath(final String... names) {
        return getPath("WEB-INF/", "classes", names);
    }

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     *
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     */

- K8s.io/component-base/logs: usage of the pflag values in a normal Go flag set led to panics when printing the help message ([#114680](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114680), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Instrumentation]

### Feature

- Kube-apiserver: fixed a 1.28 regression printing pods with invalid initContainer status. ([#124906](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124906), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

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  public static void copy(URL from, OutputStream to) throws IOException {
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  }

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   * Returns a {@code URL} pointing to {@code resourceName} if the resource is found using the
   * {@linkplain Thread#getContextClassLoader() context class loader}. In simple environments, the

### Bug or Regression

- If firstTimestamp is not set use firstTimestamp or eventTime when printing event ([#91056](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91056), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG CLI]
- hyperkube: Use debian-hyperkube-base@v1.1.0 image
  

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