- `admissionReviewVersions` default value is removed and the field made required for v1 (supported versions for AdmissionReview are `v1` and `v1beta1`)
  - The `name` field for specified webhooks must be unique for `MutatingWebhookConfiguration` and `ValidatingWebhookConfiguration` objects created via `admissionregistration.k8s.io/v1`

- CustomResourceDefinition schemas that use `x-kubernetes-list-type: map` or `x-kubernetes-list-type: set` now enable validation that the list items in the corresponding custom resources are unique. ([#84920](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84920), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts)) [SIG API Machinery]
 
#### Configuration file changes:

#### kube-apiserver:

- In the course of admitting a single request, the ValidatingAdmissionPolicy plugin will perform no more than one authorization check per unique authorizer expression. All evaluations of identical authorizer expressions will produce the same decision. ([#116443](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116443), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]...

key. func New[H fips140.Hash](h func() H, key []byte) *HMAC { hm := &HMAC{keyLen: len(key)} hm.outer = h() hm.inner = h() unique := true func() { defer func() { // The comparison might panic if the underlying types are not comparable. _ = recover() }() if hm.outer == hm.inner { unique = false } }() if !unique { panic("crypto/hmac: hash generation function does not produce unique values") } blocksize := hm.inner.BlockSize() hm.ipad = make([]byte, blocksize) hm.opad = make([]byte, blocksize) if len(key)...

  * Strategic Merge Patch

    * Reference docs now display the patch type and patch merge key used by `kubectl apply` to merge and identify unique elements in arrays.

      * `kubectl edit` and `kubectl apply` will keep the ordering of elements in merged lists ([#45980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45980), [@mengqiy](https://github.com/mengqiy))

* kubelet: resolved hang/timeout issues when running large numbers of pods with unique configmap/secret references ([#74755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74755), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Fix metrics API group name in audit configuration ([#53493](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53493), [@piosz](https://github.com/piosz))
* GCE: Fixes ILB sync on legacy networks and auto networks with unique subnet names ([#53410](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53410), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

and key. func New[H hash.Hash](h func() H, key []byte) *HMAC { hm := &HMAC{keyLen: len(key)} hm.outer = h() hm.inner = h() unique := true func() { defer func() { // The comparison might panic if the underlying types are not comparable. _ = recover() }() if hm.outer == hm.inner { unique = false } }() if !unique { panic("crypto/hmac: hash generation function does not produce unique values") } blocksize := hm.inner.BlockSize() hm.ipad = make([]byte, blocksize) hm.opad = make([]byte, blocksize) if len(key)...

- The calculation of pod UIDs for static pods has changed to ensure each static pod gets a unique value - this will cause all static pod containers to be recreated/restarted if an in-place kubelet upgrade from 1.20 to 1.21 is performed. Note that draining pods before upgrading the kubelet across minor versions is the supported upgrade path. (...

- Change the calculation of pod UIDs so that static pods get a unique value - will cause all containers to be killed and recreated after in-place upgrade. ([#87461](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87461), [@bboreham](https://github.com/bboreham)) [SIG Node]