* Adding vmdk file extension for vmDiskPath in vsphere DeleteVolume ([#40538](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40538), [@divyenpatel](https://github.com/divyenpatel))
* AWS: Remove duplicate calls to DescribeInstance during volume operations ([#39842](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39842), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

- Manual change of a failed job condition status to False does not result in duplicate conditions ([#110292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110292), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps]
- OpenAPI will no longer duplicate these schemas:
  - io.k8s.apimachinery.pkg.apis.meta.v1.DeleteOptions_v2
  - io.k8s.apimachinery.pkg.apis.meta.v1.ObjectMeta_v2

- Duplicate owner reference entries in create/update/patch requests now get deduplicated by the API server. The client sending the request now receives a warning header in the API response. Clients should stop sending requests with duplicate owner references. The API server may reject such requests as early as 1.24. ([#96185](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96185),...

- Fixed a bug which kubectl would emit duplicate warning messages for flag names that contain an underscore and recommend using a nonexistent flag in some cases. ([#103852](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103852), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley))

  - `spec.usages` is now required, may not contain duplicate values, and must only contain known usages
  - `status.conditions` may not contain duplicate types
  - `status.conditions[*].status` is now required

- Kubeadm: improve the strict parsing of user YAML/JSON configuration files. Next to printing warnings for unknown and duplicate fields (current state), also print warnings for fields with incorrect case sensitivity - e.g. `controlPlaneEndpoint` (valid), `ControlPlaneEndpoint` (invalid). Instead of only printing warnings during `init` and `join` also print warnings when downloading...

* Bumps metrics-server version to v0.3.6 with following bugfix: ([#83907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83907), [@olagacek](https://github.com/olagacek))
        *  Don't break metric storage when duplicate pod metrics encountered causing hpa to fail
* kube-apiserver: Fixed a regression accepting patch requests > 1MB ([#84963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84963), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Remove the deprecated flag `--generator` from `kubectl create deployment` command. ([#99915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99915), [@BLasan](https://github.com/BLasan))
- Remove the duplicate packet import. ([#101187](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101187), [@chuntaochen](https://github.com/chuntaochen))

Unfortunately, there is a much rarer second possible failure mode: the replication controller gets renamed to the old name, but there is a duplicate set of pods in the cluster. kubectl will not report an error since it thinks its job is done.

* cluster-autoscaler: Fix duplicate writing of logs. ([#45017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45017), [@MaciekPytel](https://github.com/MaciekPytel))