* In GCE with COS, increase TasksMax for Docker service to raise cap on number of threads/processes used by containers. ([#51986](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51986), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

- Fix the bug which could result in Job status updates failing with the error:
  status.startTime: Required value: startTime cannot be removed for unsuspended job
  The error could be raised after a Job is resumed, if started and suspended previously. ([#135129](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135129), [@dejanzele](https://github.com/dejanzele)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Do not raise an error when setting a label with the same value, ignore it. ([#105936](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105936), [@zigarn](https://github.com/zigarn))

- Bumped metrics-server to `v0.6.3`. ([#117120](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117120), [@dgrisonnet](https://github.com/dgrisonnet))

- Bump runc to v1.1.4 ([#113719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113719), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Node]
- Do not raise an error when setting an annotation with the same value, just ignore it. ([#109505](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109505), [@zigarn](https://github.com/zigarn)) [SIG CLI]

- CRD validation now strictly enforces ranges for numeric formats (int32, int64, float, double) when specified in the schema. Existing objects with out-of-range values are preserved via validation ratcheting ([#136582](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/136582), [@yongruilin](http...

    *  - vSphere cloud provider (VCP) uses OS hostname and not vSphere Inventory VM Name.
    *    That means, now  VCP can handle cases where user changes VM inventory name.
    * - VCP can handle cases where VM migrates to other ESXi cluster or datacenter or vCenter.
    * The only requirement is the shared storage. VCP needs shared storage on all Node VMs.

- GCE clusters will include some IP ranges that are not used on the public Internet in the list of non-masq IPs. Bumped ip-masq-agent version to v2.3.0 with flag `nomasq-all-reserved-ranges` turned on. ([#77458](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77458), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))

- Fix the bug which could result in Job status updates failing with the error:
  status.startTime: Required value: startTime cannot be removed for unsuspended job
  The error could be raised after a Job is resumed, if started and suspended previously. ([#135130](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135130), [@dejanzele](https://github.com/dejanzele)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

	objectInputs := []ObjectInput{
		// // cases 0-3: small single part objects
		{"nothing", []int64{0}, make(map[string]string)},
		{"small-0", []int64{11}, make(map[string]string)},
		{"small-1", []int64{509}, make(map[string]string)},
		{"small-2", []int64{5 * oneMiB}, make(map[string]string)},
		// // // cases 4-7: multipart part objects
		{"mp-0", []int64{5 * oneMiB, 10}, make(map[string]string)},