- Fixed performance regression in scheduler caused by frequent metric lookup on critical code path. ([#117594](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117594), [@tosi3k](https://github.com/tosi3k))

- `client-go`, using log level 9, traces the following events of a HTTP request:
      - DNS lookup
      - TCP dialing
      - TLS handshake
      - Time to get a connection from the pool

  var commaFound = false
  loop@ while (!exhausted()) {
    when (this[0]) {
      ','.code.toByte() -> {
        // Consume ','.
        readByte()
        commaFound = true
      }

      ' '.code.toByte(), '\t'.code.toByte() -> {
        readByte()
        // Consume space or tab.
      }

      else -> break@loop
    }
  }
  return commaFound
}

    try {
      finalizeReferentMethod.invoke(reference);
    } catch (Throwable t) {
      logger.log(Level.SEVERE, "Error cleaning up after reference.", t);
    }
    return true;
  }

  /** Looks up FinalizableReference.finalizeReferent() method. */
  private @Nullable Method getFinalizeReferentMethod() {
    Class<?> finalizableReferenceClass = finalizableReferenceClassReference.get();

    int utf16Length = sequence.length();
    int utf8Length = utf16Length;
    int i = 0;

    // This loop optimizes for pure ASCII.
    while (i < utf16Length && sequence.charAt(i) < 0x80) {
      i++;
    }

    // This loop optimizes for chars less than 0x800.
    for (; i < utf16Length; i++) {
      char c = sequence.charAt(i);
      if (c < 0x800) {

  }

  /**
   * Updates the index an iterator is pointing to after a call to remove: returns the index of the
   * entry that should be looked at after a removal on indexRemoved, with indexBeforeRemove as the
   * index that *was* the next entry that would be looked at.
   */
  int adjustAfterRemove(int indexBeforeRemove, @SuppressWarnings("unused") int indexRemoved) {
    return indexBeforeRemove - 1;
  }

  }

  /**
   * Updates the index an iterator is pointing to after a call to remove: returns the index of the
   * entry that should be looked at after a removal on indexRemoved, with indexBeforeRemove as the
   * index that *was* the next entry that would be looked at.
   */
  int adjustAfterRemove(int indexBeforeRemove, @SuppressWarnings("unused") int indexRemoved) {
    return indexBeforeRemove - 1;
  }

* Performs validation (when applying for example) against OpenAPI schema rather than Swagger 1.0. ([#51364](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51364), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse))
* Make all e2e tests lookup image to use from a centralized place. In that centralized place, add support for multiple platforms. ([#49457](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49457), [@mkumatag](https://github.com/mkumatag))

        if
            case $arg in                                #(
              -*)   false ;;                            # don't mess with options #(
              /?*)  t=${arg#/} t=/${t%%/*}              # looks like a POSIX filepath
                    [ -e "$t" ] ;;                      #(
              *)    false ;;
            esac
        then
            arg=$( cygpath --path --ignore --mixed "$arg" )
        fi

        }
      }
      return true;
    }
  },
  /**
   * This strategy uses all 128 bits of {@link Hashing#murmur3_128} when hashing. It looks different
   * from the implementation in MURMUR128_MITZ_32 because we're avoiding the multiplication in the
   * loop and doing a (much simpler) += hash2. We're also changing the index to a positive number by
   * AND'ing with Long.MAX_VALUE instead of flipping the bits.
   */