release.  A new alpha feature is introduced to improve the mechanism that nodes heartbeat back to the control plane.  The `NodeLease` feature results in the node using a `Lease` resource in the `kube-node-lease` namespace that is renewed periodically.  The `NodeStatus` that was used previously to heartbeat back to the control plane is only updated when it changes.  This reduces load on the control plane for large clusters. The Kubelet plugin registration mechanism, which enables automatic discovery of external...

// a synchronous manner.
func mustReplicate(ctx context.Context, bucket, object string, mopts mustReplicateOptions) (dsc ReplicateDecision) {
	// object layer not initialized we return with no decision.
	if newObjectLayerFn() == nil {
		return
	}

	// Disable server-side replication on object prefixes which are excluded

			markDelete = false
		}
		if opts.VersionPurgeStatus() == replication.VersionPurgeComplete {
			markDelete = false
		}
		// now, since VersionPurgeStatus() is already set, we can let the
		// lower layers decide this. This fixes a regression that was introduced
		// in PR #14555 where !VersionPurgeStatus.Empty() is automatically
		// considered as Delete marker true to avoid listing such objects by

* Action required: If you have a running federation control plane, you will have to ensure that for all federation resources, the corresponding namespace exists in federation control plane. ([#31139](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31139), [@nikhiljindal](https://github.com/nikhiljindal))

This has **several benefits**, one of the main ones is that now the parameters of your functions with `Annotated` would **not be affected** at all.

		Code:  ErrSiteReplicationIAMConfigMismatch,
	}
}

var errSRObjectLayerNotReady = SRError{
	Cause: fmt.Errorf("object layer not ready"),
	Code:  ErrServerNotInitialized,
}

func getSRStateFilePath() string {
	return srStatePrefix + SlashSeparator + srStateFile
}

// SRError - wrapped error for site replication.

* Make all e2e tests lookup image to use from a centralized place. In that centralized place, add support for multiple platforms. ([#49457](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49457), [@mkumatag](https://github.com/mkumatag))

* Upgrade golang.org/x/net image to release-branch.go1.10 ([#70663](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70663), [@wenjiaswe](https://github.com/wenjiaswe))
* Fixes a bug in previous releases where a pod could be placed inside another pod's cgroup when specifying --cgroup-root ([#70678](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70678), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

- Sometimes, the scheduler incorrectly placed a pod in the "unschedulable" queue instead of the "backoff" queue. This happened when some plugin previously declared the pod as "unschedulable" and then in a later attempt encounters some other error. Scheduling of that pod then got delayed by up to five minutes, after which periodic flushing moved the pod back into the "active"...

- The `KubeletSeparateDiskGC` feature gate is now beta. This split image filesystem feature enables kubelet to perform garbage collection of images (read-only layers) and/or containers (writeable layers) deployed on separate filesystems. gate is now beta. ([#126205](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126205), [@kwilczynski](https://github.com/kwilczynski))