* Fix incorrect conflict errors applying strategic merge patches to resources. ([#43871](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43871), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Fix init container status reporting when active deadline is exceeded. ([#46305](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46305), [@sjenning](https://github.com/sjenning))

* [Federation][kubefed]: Use StorageClassName for etcd pvc ([#46323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46323), [@marun](https://github.com/marun))
* Restrict active deadline seconds max allowed value to be maximum uint32 ([#46640](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46640), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))

- If the user specifies an invalid timeout in the request URL, the request will be aborted with an HTTP 400.
  - in cases where the client specifies a timeout in the request URL, the overall request deadline is shortened now since the deadline is setup as soon as the request is received by the apiserver. ([#96901](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96901), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- If the user specifies an invalid timeout in the request URL, the request will be aborted with an HTTP 400.
  - If the user specifies a timeout in the request URL that exceeds the maximum request deadline allowed by the apiserver, the request will be aborted with an HTTP 400. ([#96061](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96061), [@tkashem](https://github.com/tkashem)) [SIG API Machinery, Network and Testing]

been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.  Callers should switch to using `wait.PollUntilContextCancel`, `wait.PollUntilContextTimeout`, or `wait.ExponentialBackoffWithContext` as appropriate.
  
  `PollWithContext(Cancel|Deadline)` will no longer return `ErrWaitTimeout` - use the `Interrupted(error) bool` helper to replace checks for `err == ErrWaitTimeout`, or compare specifically to context errors as needed. A future release will make the `ErrWaitTimeout` error private...

- ServiceAccount metadata.annotations[kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets]: deprecated since v1.32; no removal deadline. Prefer separate namespaces to isolate access to mounted secrets. ([#128396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128396), [@ritazh](https://github.com/ritazh)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth, CLI and Testing]

- Kubelet: the following dockershim related flags are also removed along with dockershim `--experimental-dockershim-root-directory`, `--docker-endpoint`, `--image-pull-progress-deadline`, `--network-plugin`, `--cni-conf-dir`, `--cni-bin-dir`, `--cni-cache-dir`, `--network-plugin-mtu`. ([#106907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106907), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))

pkg net, method (*UnixConn) CloseRead() error
pkg net, method (*UnixConn) CloseWrite() error
pkg net, type Dialer struct
pkg net, type Dialer struct, Deadline time.Time
pkg net, type Dialer struct, LocalAddr Addr
pkg net, type Dialer struct, Timeout time.Duration
pkg net, type IPAddr struct, Zone string
pkg net, type NS struct
pkg net, type NS struct, Host string