## Major Themes

### SIG API Machinery

- E2e framework: the `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint has been removed from the default value of `--non-blocking-taints` flag. You may need to set `--non-blocking-taints` explicitly if the cluster to be tested has nodes with the deprecated `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint. ([#118510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118510), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Testing]

- Updated json representation for a conflicted taint to `Key=Effect` when a conflicted taint occurs in kubectl taint. ([#104011](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104011), [@manugupt1](https://github.com/manugupt1))
- Upgrades functionality of `kubectl kustomize` as described at

* [alpha] Users can now add taints to nodes by condition ([design doc](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/design-proposals/scheduling/taint-node-by-condition.md))

#### Storage

* [stable] Mount options

- Fixing a bug where a failed node may not have the NoExecute taint set correctly ([#98943](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98943), [@CKchen0726](https://github.com/CKchen0726)) [SIG Apps and Node]

   * array whose contents are initially non-null. The {@code @Nullable} annotation indicates that
   * this method will write nulls into the array during iteration.
   *
   * <p>This is mainly just to avoid the intermediate ArrayDeque in ConsumingQueueIterator.
   */
  private static <I extends Iterator<?>> Iterator<I> consumingForArray(@Nullable I... elements) {
    return new UnmodifiableIterator<I>() {

- Kubeadm: removed the toleration for the `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` taint from the CoreDNS deployment of `kubeadm`. With the 1.25 release of kubeadm the taint `node-role.kubernetes.io/master` is no longer applied to control plane nodes and the toleration for it can be removed with the release of 1.26. You can also perform the same toleration removal from your own...

				break
			}
		}

		if requestedVersions > 0 && requestedVersions == nVersions {
			merged = append(merged, versions[0]...)
			break
		}
	}

	// Sanity check. Enable if duplicates show up.
	if false {
		found := make(map[[16]byte]struct{})
		for _, ver := range merged {
			if _, ok := found[ver.header.VersionID]; ok {
				panic("found dupe")
			}

    assertEquals(0, stats.missCount());
    assertEquals(0, stats.loadSuccessCount());
    assertEquals(0, stats.loadExceptionCount());
    assertEquals(0, stats.hitCount());

    // Sanity check:
    assertFalse(Thread.interrupted());

    Exception expected = assertThrows(ExecutionException.class, () -> cache.get(new Object()));
    assertThat(expected).hasCauseThat().isSameInstanceAs(e);

it hurried off, without waiting for the end of the song.

  `What trial is it?' Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon
only answered `Come on!' and ran the faster, while more and more
faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the
melancholy words:--

    `Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
        Beautiful, beautiful Soup!'



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