* Fix false positive "meaningful conflict" detection for strategic merge patch with integer values. ([#44788](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44788), [@enisoc](https://github.com/enisoc))

  This bug causes the conformance test "HostPort validates that there is no conflict between pods with same hostPort but different hostIP and protocol" to fail. ([#98838](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98838), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Node]

### Bug or Regression

- Kubelet: fixes a bug in the HostPort dockershim implementation that caused the conformance test "HostPort validates that there is no conflict between pods with same hostPort but different hostIP and protocol" to fail. ([#98755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98755), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Network and Node]

### SIG Apps

- The service controller will now retry creating the load balancer when `persistUpdate` fails due to conflict. ([#68087](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68087), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))

- If a conflict occurs when creating an object with `generateName`, the server now returns an "AlreadyExists" error with a retry option. ([#104699](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104699), [@vincepri](https://github.com/vincepri))

<a href="#Goto_statements">"goto"</a> statements.
It is illegal to define a label that is never used.
In contrast to other identifiers, labels are not block scoped and do
not conflict with identifiers that are not labels. The scope of a label
is the body of the function in which it is declared and excludes
the body of any nested function.
</p>

courts of a jurisdiction where the defendant maintains its principal
place of business and such litigation shall be governed by laws of that
jurisdiction, without reference to its conflict-of-law provisions.
Nothing in this Section shall prevent a party's ability to bring
cross-claims or counter-claims.

9. Miscellaneous
----------------

* Fix a bug with binding mount directories and files using flexVolumes ([#49118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49118), [@adelton](https://github.com/adelton))
* PodPreset is not injected if conflict occurs while applying PodPresets to a Pod. ([#47864](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47864), [@droot](https://github.com/droot))

* fixes spurious "meaningful conflict" error encountered by nodes attempting to update status, which could cause them to be considered unready ([#66171](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66171), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- For apiserver_storage_size_bytes metric, we are renaming the label for etcd to be "storage_cluster_id" instead of "cluster" to to reduce conflict and be very specific. ([#124293](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124293), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Testing]

## Dependencies

### Added