- Kubectl: Add `--use-protocol-buffers` flag to kubectl top pods and nodes. ([#96655](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96655), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

    memory usage.
*   Fixed bfloat16 integration of LIBXSMM sparse mat-mul.
*   Improved performance and reduce memory usage by allowing ops to forward
    input buffers to output buffers and perform computations in-place.
*   Improved the performance of CPU assignment for strings.
*   Speed up matrix * vector multiplication and matrix * matrix with unknown
    shapes.

                final int _bufferl = length / 2;
                final int _buffers = maximum_length / 2;
                _dst.enc_ndr_long(_buffers);
                _dst.enc_ndr_long(0);
                _dst.enc_ndr_long(_bufferl);
                final int _bufferi = _dst.index;
                _dst.advance(2 * _bufferl);

                _dst = _dst.derive(_bufferi);
                for (int _i = 0; _i < _bufferl; _i++) {

- `Scheduler` now registers event handlers dynamically. ([#101394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101394), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
- `kubectl`: Enable using protocol buffers to request Metrics API. ([#102039](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102039), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

### Documentation

        fileInternalInfo.decode(buffer2, 0, buffer2.length);
        assertEquals(indexNumber2, fileInternalInfo.getIndexNumber());

        // Third decode - should overwrite again
        byte[] buffer3 = new byte[8];
        long indexNumber3 = 0x3333333333333333L;
        SMBUtil.writeInt8(indexNumber3, buffer3, 0);
        fileInternalInfo.decode(buffer3, 0, buffer3.length);

        // Encode multiple times
        byte[] buffer1 = new byte[100];
        byte[] buffer2 = new byte[100];
        byte[] buffer3 = new byte[100];

        int encoded1 = request.encode(buffer1, 0);
        int encoded2 = request.encode(buffer2, 0);
        int encoded3 = request.encode(buffer3, 0);

        // All should produce same result
        assertEquals(encoded1, encoded2);

        byte[] buffer = new byte[context.size()];
        int bytesWritten = context.encode(buffer, 0);

        assertEquals(context.size(), bytesWritten);

        // Verify context header
        assertEquals(0, SMBUtil.readInt4(buffer, 0)); // Next
        assertEquals(16, SMBUtil.readInt2(buffer, 4)); // NameOffset
        assertEquals(4, SMBUtil.readInt2(buffer, 6)); // NameLength

            byte[] buffer = new byte[64];
            SMBUtil.writeInt2(17, buffer, 0);
            SMBUtil.writeInt2(0, buffer, 2);
            SMBUtil.writeInt4(count, buffer, 4);
            SMBUtil.writeInt4(remaining, buffer, 8);
            SMBUtil.writeInt4(0, buffer, 12);
            SMBUtil.writeInt4(0, buffer, 16);
            return buffer;
        }
    }

        assertEquals(32, SMBUtil.readInt2(buffer, offset));

        // Verify notify flags
        assertEquals(Smb2ChangeNotifyRequest.SMB2_WATCH_TREE, SMBUtil.readInt2(buffer, offset + 2));

        // Verify output buffer length
        assertEquals(8192, SMBUtil.readInt4(buffer, offset + 4));

        // Verify file ID
        byte[] readFileId = new byte[16];
        System.arraycopy(buffer, offset + 8, readFileId, 0, 16);

        // Test multiple calls to readDataWireFormat to ensure buffer is overwritten
        byte[] firstData = "First data set".getBytes();
        byte[] secondData = "Second data set".getBytes();
        byte[] buffer1 = new byte[100];
        byte[] buffer2 = new byte[100];

        System.arraycopy(firstData, 0, buffer1, 0, firstData.length);
        System.arraycopy(secondData, 0, buffer2, 0, secondData.length);

        // First read