// if checkTime, we want to check *after* acquiring the lock if refresh still needs
              // to be scheduled
              return null;
            }

            // continue returning old value while loading
            ++modCount;
            LoadingValueReference<K, V> loadingValueReference =
                new LoadingValueReference<>(valueReference);

* Changed default scsi controller type in vSphere Cloud Provider ([#38426](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38426), [@abrarshivani](https://github.com/abrarshivani))
* Fixes API compatibility issue with empty lists incorrectly returning a null `items` field instead of an empty array. ([#39834](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39834), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

    inappropriate.

 *  New: `HttpUrl.get(String)` is an alternative to `HttpUrl.parse(String)` that throws an exception
    when the URL is malformed instead of returning null. Use this to avoid checking for null in
    situations where the input is known to be well-formed. We've also added `MediaType.get(String)`
    which is an exception-throwing alternative to `MediaType.parse(String)`.

			}
		}
	}

	modTime := opts.MTime
	if opts.MTime.IsZero() {
		modTime = UTCNow()
	}
	fvID := mustGetUUID()

	defer func() {
		// attempt a heal before returning if there are offline disks
		// for both del marker and permanent delete situations.
		for _, disk := range storageDisks {
			if disk != nil && disk.IsOnline() {
				continue
			}

* Fix incorrectly propagated ResourceVersion in ListRequests returning 0 items. ([#64150](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64150), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

	return err
}

// getClusterMetaInfo gets information of the current cluster and
// returns it.
// This is not a critical function, and it is allowed
// to fail with a ten seconds timeout, returning nil.
func getClusterMetaInfo(ctx context.Context) []byte {
	objectAPI := newObjectLayerFn()
	if objectAPI == nil {
		return nil
	}

	// Add a ten seconds timeout because getting profiling data

* Protobuf serialization does not distinguish between `[]` and `null`. ([#45294](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45294), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Kube-apiserver: fixed a bug returning inconsistent results from list requests which set a field or label selector and set a paging limit ([#94002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94002), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery]

protobuf you will be forced to restore from backup, and you will lose any changes
since you converted to protobuf.  After conversion to protobuf, you should
validate the correct operation of your cluster thoroughly before returning it
to normal operation.

Backups are always a good precaution, particularly around upgrades, but this
upgrade has multiple known issues where the only remedy is to restore from
backup.

* Filter out non-RestartAlways mirror pod in restart test. ([#37203](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37203), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))
* Validate volume spec before returning azure mounter ([#37018](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37018), [@rootfs](https://github.com/rootfs))