- Graduated relaxed DNS search string validation to GA. For the Pod API, `.spec.dnsConfig.searches`

- Respect annotation size limit for server-side apply updates to the client-side apply annotation. Also, fix opt-out of this behavior by setting the client-side apply annotation to the empty string. ([#102105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102105), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG API Machinery]

    @Override
    public V setValue(V newValue) {
      V oldValue = put(key, newValue);
      value = newValue; // only if put succeeds
      return oldValue;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
      return getKey() + "=" + getValue();
    }
  }

  final class EntryIterator extends HashIterator<Entry<K, V>> {

    @Override
    public Entry<K, V> next() {

* GC pod ips ([#35572](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35572), [@bprashanth](https://github.com/bprashanth))
* Fix version string generation for local version different from release and not based on `-alpha.no` or `-beta.no` suffixed tag. ([#34612](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34612), [@jellonek](https://github.com/jellonek))

map-get($utility, values);\n\n  // If the values are a list or string, convert it into a map\n  @if type-of($values) == \"string\" or type-of(nth($values, 1)) != \"list\" {\n    $values: zip($values, $values);\n  }\n\n  @each $key, $value in $values {\n    $properties: map-get($utility, property);\n\n    // Multiple properties are possible, for example with vertical or horizontal margins or paddings\n    @if type-of($properties) == \"string\" {\n      $properties: append((), $properties);\n    }\n\n...

* fix a bug that overwhelming number of prometheus metrics are generated because $NAMESPACE is not replaced by string "{namespace}" ([#68530](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68530), [@wenjiaswe](https://github.com/wenjiaswe))

- Fixed CEL estimated cost of `replace()` to handle a zero length replacement string correctly.
  Previously this would cause the estimated cost to be higher than it should be. ([#120097](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120097), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Client-go: fixed potential data races retrying requests using a custom `io.Reader` body; with this fix, only requests with no body or with `string` / `[]byte` / `runtime.Object` bodies can be retried ([#113933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113933), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Respect annotation size limit for server-side apply updates to the client-side apply annotation. Also, fix opt-out of this behavior by setting the client-side apply annotation to the empty string. ([#102105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102105), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Updated `etcd` version to `3.5.8`. ([#117335](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117335),...