### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Reverts the EventedPLEG feature (beta, but disabled by default) back to alpha for a known issue ([#122718](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122718), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Node]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

   *       {@link #withoutCloser(AsyncFunction)}
   * </ul>
   *
   * <p>Example usage:
   *
   * {@snippet :
   * // Fall back to a secondary input stream in case of IOException.
   * ClosingFuture<InputStream> inputFuture =
   *     firstInputFuture.catchingAsync(

* Add support for Azure Container Registry, update Azure dependencies ([#37783](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37783), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))
* Fixes an issue where `hack/local-up-cluster.sh` would fail on the API server start with ([#38898](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38898), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

			return false
		}

		// Finally, if there is no parent policy, check if a policy claim is
		// present in the session token.
		if len(policies) == 0 {
			// If there is no parent policy mapping, we fall back to
			// using policy claim from JWT.
			policySet, ok := args.GetPolicies(iamPolicyClaimNameOpenID())
			if !ok {
				// When claims are set, it should have a policy claim field.
				return false
			}

* cluster/aws: Removed due to [deprecation](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38772) and lack of maintenance. ([#42196](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42196), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))

* Fixed scanning of failed iSCSI targets. ([#74306](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74306), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* fix detach azure disk back off issue which has too big lock in failure retry condition ([#76573](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76573), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

raw string literals and interpreted string literals.
</p>

<p>
Raw string literals are character sequences between back quotes, as in
<code>`foo`</code>.  Within the quotes, any character may appear except
back quote. The value of a raw string literal is the
string composed of the uninterpreted (implicitly UTF-8-encoded) characters
between the quotes;

- Added a new Priority and Fairness metric `apiserver_flowcontrol_request_dispatch_no_accommodation_total` to track the number of times a request dispatch attempt results in a no-accommodation status due to lack of available seats. ([#106629](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106629), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem))

                                        null);
                            } catch (SmbException se) {
                                // Handle specific not-found errors without falling back to queryPath
                                switch (se.getNtStatus()) {
                                case NtStatus.NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_FILE:
                                case NtStatus.NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_INVALID:

### Container Runtime Interface (CRI) v1 is default

The Kubelet now supports the CRI `v1` API, which is now the project-wide default.
If a container runtime does not support the `v1` API, Kubernetes will fall back to the `v1alpha2` implementation.
There is no intermediate action required by end-users, because `v1` and `v1alpha2` do not differ in their implementation.