* receiver can store the {@link ValueAndCloser} outside the receiver for later synchronous use.
   *
   * <p>After calling this method, you may not call {@link #finishToFuture()}, this method again, or
   * any other derivation method on the original {@code ClosingFuture} instance.
   *
   * @param consumer a callback whose method will be called (using {@code executor}) when this
   *     operation is done

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Make STS available replicas optional again, ([#109241](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109241), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]
- Make STS available replicas optional again. ([#113122](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113122), [@ashrayjain](https://github.com/ashrayjain)) [SIG Apps]

- Correct a reference to a not/no longer used kustomize subcommand in the documentation ([#82535](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82535), [@demobox](https://github.com/demobox))
- kubectl could scale custom resource again ([#81342](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81342), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42))

* GCE bring-up: Differentiate NODE_TAGS from NODE_INSTANCE_PREFIX ([#29141](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29141), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* hyperkube: fix build for 3rd party registry (again) ([#28489](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/28489), [@liyimeng](https://github.com/liyimeng))

- In the `wait.PollUntilContextTimeout` function, if `immediate` is true, the condition will now be invoked before waiting, guaranteeing that the condition is invoked at least once and then wait a interval before executing again. ([#119762](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119762), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))

API server now exits if it encounters a networking failure (e.g. the networking interface hosting its address goes away) to allow a process manager (systemd/kubelet/etc) to react to the problem. Previously the server would log the failure and try again to bind to its configured address:port. ([#42272](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42272), [@marun](https://github.com/marun))

* The Prometheus metrics for the kube-apiserver for tracking incoming API requests and latencies...

- Kube-scheduler: in Kubernetes 1.33, the number of devices that can be allocated per ResourceClaim was accidentally reduced to 16. Now the supported number of devices per ResourceClaim is 32 again. ([#131662](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131662), [@mortent](https://github.com/mortent)) [SIG Node]

- api-machinery utility functions `SetTransportDefaults` and `DialerFor` once again respect custom Dial functions set on transports ([#65547](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65547), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Failed pods associated with a job with `parallelism = 1` are recreated by the job controller honoring exponential backoff delay again. However, for jobs with `parallelism > 1`, pods might be created without exponential backoff delay. ([#115021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115021), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita)) [SIG Apps]

   ([#122530](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122530), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))