### Other notable changes

* Ensure status is not changed during an update of PV, PVC, HPA objects ([#24924](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24924), [@mqliang](https://github.com/mqliang))
* GCI: Add two GCI specific metadata pairs ([#25105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25105), [@andyzheng0831](https://github.com/andyzheng0831))

     *
     * @param form the form containing the web authentication data
     * @return an optional WebAuthentication entity with updated metadata
     */
    public static OptionalEntity<WebAuthentication> getWebAuthentication(final CreateForm form) {
        final SystemHelper systemHelper = ComponentUtil.getSystemHelper();

    }

    // ========== File Metadata Operations ==========

    @Test
    void testFileMetadata() throws Exception {
        SmbFile file = new SmbFile(baseUrl + "shared/metadata.txt", context);
        String content = "This is test content for metadata testing";

        // Write content to file
        try (OutputStream out = file.openOutputStream(false)) {

  var exception: IOException? = null
  val files =
    try {
      list(directory)
    } catch (fnfe: FileNotFoundException) {
      return
    }
  for (file in files) {
    try {
      if (metadata(file).isDirectory) {
        deleteContents(file)
      }

      delete(file)
    } catch (ioe: IOException) {
      if (exception == null) {
        exception = ioe
      }
    }
  }

controller & Replicaset**: the DELETE request of a replication controller or a replicaset becomes asynchronous by default. The object will continue to exist in the key-value store for some time. The API server will set its metadata.deletionTimestamp, add the "orphan" finalizer to its metadata.finalizers. The object will be deleted from the key-value store after the garbage collector orphans its dependents. Please refer to this [user-guide](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/garbage-collector/) for more...

- Changed metadata management for Pods to populate `.metadata.generation` on writes. New pods will have a `metadata.generation` of 1; updates to mutable fields in the Pod `.spec` will result in `metadata.generation` being incremented by 1. ([#130181](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130181), [@natasha41575](https://github.com/natasha41575)) [SIG...

     * Also processes permissions and virtual hosts from form fields.
     *
     * @param form the form containing the web config data
     * @return an optional WebConfig entity with updated metadata
     */
    public static OptionalEntity<WebConfig> getWebConfig(final CreateForm form) {
        final SystemHelper systemHelper = ComponentUtil.getSystemHelper();
        final String username = systemHelper.getUsername();

* GCP: allow a master to not include a metadata concealment firewall rule (if it's not running the metadata proxy). ([#58104](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58104), [@ihmccreery](https://github.com/ihmccreery))

- Fix counting error in service/nodeport/loadbalancer quota check ([#97829](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97829), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG API Machinery and Network]
- Fix: azure file latency issue for metadata-heavy workloads ([#97082](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97082), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

import org.opensearch.action.admin.indices.get.GetIndexResponse;
import org.opensearch.action.admin.indices.refresh.RefreshResponse;
import org.opensearch.action.search.SearchResponse;
import org.opensearch.cluster.metadata.AliasMetadata;
import org.opensearch.common.xcontent.XContentType;
import org.opensearch.index.query.QueryBuilder;
import org.opensearch.index.query.QueryBuilders;
import org.opensearch.transport.client.Client;

/**