- [**Cluster Federation**](#cluster-federation)
      - [Placement Policy](#placement-policy)
      - [Cluster Selection](#cluster-selection)
    - [**Instrumentation**](#instrumentation)
      - [Core Metrics API](#core-metrics-api)
    - [**Internationalization**](#internationalization)
    - [**kubectl (CLI)**](#kubectl-cli-1)
    - [**Networking**](#networking)
      - [Network Policy](#network-policy)

### SIG GCP

- GCE: decrease cpu requests on master node, to allow more components to fit on one core machine. ([#67504](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67504), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

    assertThat(notification.getKey()).isSameInstanceAs(key);
    assertThat(notification.getValue()).isSameInstanceAs(value);
    assertThat(notification.getCause()).isEqualTo(cause);
  }

  // Segment core tests

  public void testNewEntry() {
    for (CacheBuilder<Object, Object> builder : allEntryTypeMakers()) {
      LocalCache<Object, Object> map = makeLocalCache(builder);

      Object keyOne = new Object();

    assertThat(notification.getKey()).isSameInstanceAs(key);
    assertThat(notification.getValue()).isSameInstanceAs(value);
    assertThat(notification.getCause()).isEqualTo(cause);
  }

  // Segment core tests

  public void testNewEntry() {
    for (CacheBuilder<Object, Object> builder : allEntryTypeMakers()) {
      LocalCache<Object, Object> map = makeLocalCache(builder);

      Object keyOne = new Object();

- Kubeadm: Add retries for kubeadm join / UpdateStatus to make update status more resilient by adding a retry loop to this operation ([#91952](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91952), [@xlgao-zju](https://github.com/xlgao-zju)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Disable watchcache for events.k8.io/Event resource for compatibility with core/Event. ([#96117](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96117), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG Scalability]

    - [Promoted Local Ephemeral Storage Capacity Isolation to Stable](#promoted-local-ephemeral-storage-capacity-isolation-to-stable)
    - [Promoted core CSI Migration to Stable](#promoted-core-csi-migration-to-stable)
    - [Promoted CSI Ephemeral Volume to Stable](#promoted-csi-ephemeral-volume-to-stable)

- `GetPodQOS(pod *core.Pod)` function now returns the stored value from `PodStatus.QOSClass`, if set. To compute/evaluate the value of `QOSClass` from scratch, `ComputePodQOS(pod*core.Pod)` must be used. ([#119665](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119665), [@vinaykul](https://github.com/vinaykul))

authz mode is set to "AlwaysAllow" if you rely on the command line, but defaults to the more secure "Webhook" mode if you load config from a file. ([#59666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59666), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

* [GCP kube-up.sh] Variables that were part of kube-env that were only used for kubelet flags are no longer being set, and are being replaced by the more portable mechanism of the kubelet configuration file. The individual variables in the...

- Kubeadm: deprecated the kubeadm `RootlessControlPlane` feature gate (previously alpha), given that the core K8s `UserNamespacesSupport` feature gate graduated to beta in 1.30.