* handling not just {@code Iterable<S>} instances, but also any {@code
     * Iterable<? extends S>}. However, the need for this comes up so rarely
     * that it doesn't justify making everyone else deal with the very ugly
     * wildcard.
     */
    return new LexicographicalOrdering<S>(this);
  }

  // Regular instance methods

  @Override

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Kubeadm: change the default image repository for CI images from 'gcr.io/kubernetes-ci-images' to 'gcr.io/k8s-staging-ci-images' ([#97087](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97087), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed

 * socket option on an IPv6 socket). Yes, it's confusing. Nevertheless, these "mapped" addresses
 * were never supposed to be seen on the wire. That assumption was dropped, some say mistakenly, in
 * later RFCs with the apparent aim of making IPv4-to-IPv6 transition simpler.
 *
 * <p>Technically one <i>can</i> create a 128bit IPv6 address with the wire format of a "mapped"
 * address, as shown above, and transmit it in an IPv6 packet header. However, Java's InetAddress

import jakarta.annotation.Resource;

/**
 * HcHttpClient is an HTTP client implementation that extends AbstractCrawlerClient.
 * It provides various configurations and settings for making HTTP requests, including
 * connection timeouts, proxy settings, user agent, request headers, cookie management,
 * and SSL configurations. The client also supports robots.txt parsing and form-based
 * authentication schemes.

* Moved staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/tools/bootstrap to staging/src/k8s… ([#67356](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67356), [@yliaog](https://github.com/yliaog))

- Migrate staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/audit/policy/reader.go logs to structured logging. ([#98252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98252), [@lala123912](https://github.com/lala123912)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]

        } else {
            boolean runningOnCI = isRunningOnCI(cliRequest.getSystemProperties());
            if (runningOnCI) {
                slf4jLogger.info(
                        "Making this build non-interactive, because the environment variable CI equals \"true\"."
                                + " Disable this detection by removing that variable or adding --force-interactive.");

 * socket option on an IPv6 socket). Yes, it's confusing. Nevertheless, these "mapped" addresses
 * were never supposed to be seen on the wire. That assumption was dropped, some say mistakenly, in
 * later RFCs with the apparent aim of making IPv4-to-IPv6 transition simpler.
 *
 * <p>Technically one <i>can</i> create a 128bit IPv6 address with the wire format of a "mapped"
 * address, as shown above, and transmit it in an IPv6 packet header. However, Java's InetAddress

// output are interpreted as UTF-8-encoded code points.
func Map(mapping func(r rune) rune, s []byte) []byte {
	// In the worst case, the slice can grow when mapped, making
	// things unpleasant. But it's so rare we barge in assuming it's
	// fine. It could also shrink but that falls out naturally.
	b := make([]byte, 0, len(s))
	for i := 0; i < len(s); {
		r, wid := utf8.DecodeRune(s[i:])

[Prevents deletion of Persistent Volume Claims that are used by a pod](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/498) and [Persistent Volumes that are bound to a Persistent Volume Claim](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/499), making it impossible to delete storage that is in use by a pod.

This release also includes [Topology Aware Volume Scheduling](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/490) for local persistent volumes, the stable release of [Detailed...