- kubeadm: all master components are now exclusively relying on the `PriorityClassName` pod spec for annotating them as cluster critical components. Since `scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/critical-pod` annotation is no longer supported by Kubernetes 1.14 this annotation is no longer added to master components. ([#73857](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73857), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre))...

- kube-scheduler
  - The alpha critical pod annotation (`scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/critical-pod`) is deprecated. Pod priority should be used instead to mark pods as critical. ([#70298](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70298), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

    logs were supported.
  - The ability to be deployed and run as a native daemon.
* **[alpha]** Critical Pods: When feature gate "ExperimentalCriticalPodAnnotation" is
  set to true, the system will guarantee scheduling and admission of pods with
  the following annotation - `scheduler.alpha.kubernetes.io/critical-pod`
  - This feature should be used in conjunction with the

## 2. Protocol Specification Reference

- **MS-SWN**: Service Witness Protocol Specification
- **MS-SMB2 Section 3.2.4.24**: FSCTL_SRV_REQUEST_RESUME_KEY
- **MS-SMB2 Section 3.3.5.15.12**: Cluster Reconnect

			n++
			if first == nil {
				first = &m[i]
			}
		}
	}
	return first, n
}

// names will return all names in order.
// Since this allocates it should not be used in critical functions.
func (m metaCacheEntries) names() []string {
	res := make([]string, 0, len(m))
	for _, obj := range m {
		res = append(res, obj.name)
	}
	return res
}

* Admit critical pods in the kubelet ([#38836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38836), [@bprashanth](https://github.com/bprashanth))
* assign -998 as the oom_score_adj for critical pods (e.g. kube-proxy) ([#39114](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39114), [@dchen1107](https://github.com/dchen1107))

// returns it.
// This is not a critical function, and it is allowed
// to fail with a ten seconds timeout, returning nil.
func getClusterMetaInfo(ctx context.Context) []byte {
	objectAPI := newObjectLayerFn()
	if objectAPI == nil {
		return nil
	}

	// Add a ten seconds timeout because getting profiling data
	// is critical for debugging, in contrary to getting cluster info

    MinMaxPriorityQueue<Integer> q = MinMaxPriorityQueue.create(initial);
    assertIntact(q);
    q.remove(9);
    q.remove(11);
    q.remove(10);
    // Now we're in the critical state: [1, 15, 13, 8, 14]
    // Removing 8 while iterating caused duplicates in iteration result.
    List<Integer> result = Lists.newArrayListWithCapacity(initial.size());

_2023-12-17_

We took too long to cut this release and there's a lot of changes in it. We've been busy.

Although this release is labeled _alpha_, the only unstable thing in it is our new APIs. This
release has many critical bug fixes and is safe to run in production. We're eager to stabilize our
new APIs so we can get out of alpha.

 *  New: Support Java 21's virtual threads (‘OpenJDK Project Loom’). We changed OkHttp's internals

      return new WeakValueReferenceImpl<>(queue, get(), entry);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Applies a supplemental hash function to a given hash code, which defends against poor quality
   * hash functions. This is critical when the concurrent hash map uses power-of-two length hash
   * tables, that otherwise encounter collisions for hash codes that do not differ in lower or upper
   * bits.
   *
   * @param h hash code
   */