// Create a completely isolated context to avoid handle reuse issues on Linux Docker
        try {
            // Create a new context with fresh configuration each time
            // This ensures complete isolation between operations
            Properties props = new Properties();
            props.setProperty("jcifs.smb.client.minVersion", "SMB202");

- Ensured directories on volumes are group-executable when using `fsGroup` ([#73533](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73533), [@mxey](https://github.com/mxey))
- Updated CSI version to 1.1 ([#75391](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75391), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

- Ensure all vSphere nodes are are tracked by volume attach-detach controller ([#96689](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96689), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
- Ensure empty string annotations are copied over in rollbacks. ([#94858](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94858), [@waynepeking348](https://github.com/waynepeking348))

- Modified the error message of `unmanagedFatal` to enhance clarity while preserving grammatical consistency with `unmanagedWarning`. This improvement ensures a more understandable prompt for users. ([#120159](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120159), [@Ithrael](https://github.com/Ithrael))

### Failing Test

- Ensured memory resizing for Guaranteed QoS pods on static Memory policy configurations was gated by `InPlacePodVerticalScalingExclusiveMemory` (defaults: `false`). ([#132473](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132473), [@pravk03](https://github.com/pravk03)) [SIG Node, Scheduling and Testing]

  
  When adding links which point to resources within git repositories, like
  KEPs or supporting documentation, please reference a specific commit and avoid
  linking directly to the master branch. This ensures that links reference a
  specific point in time, rather than a document that may change over time.
  

    return keySet.descendingSet();
  }

  /**
   * Serialized type for all ImmutableSortedMap instances. It captures the logical contents and they
   * are reconstructed using public factory methods. This ensures that the implementation types
   * remain as implementation details.
   */
  @J2ktIncompatible // serialization
  private static final class SerializedForm<K, V> extends ImmutableMap.SerializedForm<K, V> {

- Ensure Pods are removed from the scheduler cache when the scheduler misses deletion events due to transient errors ([#106102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106102), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

Kubernetes performs pruning, or the automatic removal of unknown fields in objects sent to a Kubernetes API. An "unknown" field is one that is not specified in the OpenAPI validation schema. This behavior is already in place for native resources and ensures only data structures specified by the CRD developer are persisted to etcd. It will be available as a beta feature in Kubernetes 1.15.

Pruning is activated by setting `spec.preserveUnknownFields: false` in the CustomResourceDefinition....

* Fix Pods using Portworx volumes getting stuck in ContainerCreating phase. ([#48898](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48898), [@harsh-px](https://github.com/harsh-px))
* RBAC role and role-binding reconciliation now ensures namespaces exist when reconciling on startup. ([#48480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48480), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))



# v1.6.7