- To avoid soft-deleted pods incorrectly affecting scale up replica count calculations, the HPA controller will stop counting soft-deleted pods for scaling purposes. ([#67067](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67067), [@moonek](https://github.com/moonek))

// has delete marker replication or delete replication (MinIO extension to allow deletes where version id
// is specified) enabled.
// Similar to bucket replication for PUT operation, soft delete (a.k.a setting delete marker) and
// permanent deletes (by specifying a version ID in the delete operation) have three states "Pending", "Complete"

and, as there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting
out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.

  `It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, `when one
wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about
by mice and rabbits.  I almost wish I hadn't gone down that
rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--it's rather curious, you know,
this sort of life!  I do wonder what CAN have happened to me!

- The `matchLabelKeys/mismatchLabelKeys` feature is introduced to the hard/soft `PodAffinity/PodAntiAffinity`. ([#116065](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116065), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))

- Kubeadm: when applying the overrides provided by the user using "extraArgs", do not sort the resulted list of arguments alpha-numerically. Instead, only sort the list of default arguments and keep the list of overrides unsorted. This allows finer control for flags which have an order that matters, such as, "--service-account-issuer" for kube-apiserver. ([#135850](https...

- Add possibility to configure controller manager to use IPv6 dual stack:
  use `--cluster-cidr="<cidr1>,<cidr2>"`.
  Notes:
  1. Only the first two CIDRs are used (soft limits for Alpha, might be lifted later on).
  2. Only the "RangeAllocator" (default) is allowed as a value for `--cidr-allocator-type`. Cloud allocators are not compatible with IPv6 dual stack

and, as there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting
out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.

  `It was much pleasanter at home,' thought poor Alice, `when one
wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about
by mice and rabbits.  I almost wish I hadn't gone down that
rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--it's rather curious, you know,
this sort of life!  I do wonder what CAN have happened to me!

  }

  public void testSetSoftValues() {
    LocalCache<Object, Object> map = makeLocalCache(createCacheBuilder().softValues());
    checkStrength(map, Strength.STRONG, Strength.SOFT);
    assertThat(map.entryFactory).isEqualTo(EntryFactory.STRONG);
  }

  private static void checkStrength(
      LocalCache<Object, Object> map, Strength keyStrength, Strength valueStrength) {

  }

  public void testSetSoftValues() {
    LocalCache<Object, Object> map = makeLocalCache(createCacheBuilder().softValues());
    checkStrength(map, Strength.STRONG, Strength.SOFT);
    assertThat(map.entryFactory).isEqualTo(EntryFactory.STRONG);
  }

  private static void checkStrength(
      LocalCache<Object, Object> map, Strength keyStrength, Strength valueStrength) {

* Azure cloudprovider: Fix controller manager crash issue on a manually created k8s cluster. ([#53694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53694), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix a bug where soft eviction would not trigger when the threshold was crossed ([#52046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52046), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))