- The deprecated `--etcd-quorum-read` flag has been removed. Quorum reads are now always enabled when fetching data from etcd. Remove the `--etcd-quorum-read`...

- `kubeadm`: `crictl pull` should use `-i` to set the image service endpoint. ([#117835](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117835), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- `kubeadm`: fixed a bug where file copy(backup) could not be executed correctly
  on Windows platform during upgrade. ([#117861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117861), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

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            public Object execute(String expression, Object value) {
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                    value = value.toString()
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                            .replace("&", "&")
                            .replace("<", "&lt;")
                            .replace(">", "&gt;");

- The job controller back-off logic is now decoupled from workqueue. In case of parallelism > 1, if there are multiple new failures in a reconciliation cycle, all the failures are taken into account to compute the back-off. Previously, the back-off kicked in for all types of failures; with this change, only pod failures are taken into account. If the back-off limits exceeds, the job is marked as failed immediately; before this change, the...

    private boolean useMultiChannelExplicitlySet = false;
    private boolean channelBindingPolicyExplicitlySet = false;

    /**
     * Create a configuration backed by properties
     *
     * @param props properties object containing JCIFS configuration settings
     * @throws CIFSException if configuration initialization fails
     */

    /**
     * Creates a new settings source backed by the specified string.
     *
     * @param settings The settings' string representation, may be empty or {@code null}.
     */
    public StringSettingsSource(CharSequence settings) {
        this(settings, null);
    }

    /**
     * Creates a new settings source backed by the specified string.
     *

    /**
     * Creates a new model source backed by the specified string.
     *
     * @param pom The POM's string representation, may be empty or {@code null}.
     */
    public StringModelSource(CharSequence pom) {
        this(pom, null);
    }

    /**
     * Creates a new model source backed by the specified string.
     *

 * This API does not try to cover all the requirements out there, just the basic ones, and is intentionally simple.
 * If plugin or extension needs anything more complex feature wise (i.e. HTTP range support or alike) it should
 * probably roll its own.
 * <p>

    private final int hashCode;

    /**
     * Creates a new source backed by the specified string.
     *
     * @param content The String representation, may be empty or {@code null}.
     */
    public StringSource(CharSequence content) {
        this(content, null);
    }

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     * Creates a new source backed by the specified string.
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