- Stop propagating SelfLink (deprecated in 1.16) in kube-apiserver ([#94397](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94397), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]
- Strip unnecessary security contexts on Windows ([#93475](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93475), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla)) [SIG Node, Testing and Windows]

  termination message log file. The termination message file is now properly
  readable for end users and has a maximum size (4k bytes) to prevent abuse.
  Each pod may have up to 12k bytes of termination messages before the contents
  of each will be truncated.
* Do not delete pod objects until all its compute resource footprint has been
  reclaimed.
  - This feature prevents the node and scheduler from oversubscribing resources

   * loading, or expired. Unlike {@link Segment#getLiveValue} this method does not attempt to clean
   * up stale entries. As such it should only be called outside a segment context, such as during
   * iteration.
   */
  @Nullable V getLiveValue(ReferenceEntry<K, V> entry, long now) {
    if (entry.getKey() == null) {
      return null;
    }

      return comparator;
    }
    return (Comparator<E>) Ordering.natural();
  }

  /**
   * Returns a live {@link Map} view whose keys are the contents of {@code set} and whose values are
   * computed on demand using {@code function}. To get an immutable <i>copy</i> instead, use {@link
   * #toMap(Iterable, Function)}.
   *

      return comparator;
    }
    return (Comparator<E>) Ordering.natural();
  }

  /**
   * Returns a live {@link Map} view whose keys are the contents of {@code set} and whose values are
   * computed on demand using {@code function}. To get an immutable <i>copy</i> instead, use {@link
   * #toMap(Iterable, Function)}.
   *

- Fixes a regression in v1beta1 PodDisruptionBudget handling of `strategic merge patch`-type API requests for the `selector` field. Prior to 1.21, these requests would merge `matchLabels` content and replace `matchExpressions` content. In 1.21, patch requests touching the `selector` field started replacing the entire selector. This is consistent with server-side apply and the v1 PodDisruptionBudget behavior, but should not have been changed for v1beta1. ([#...

    /** The key of the message: Config Parameter */
    public static final String LABELS_CONFIG_PARAMETER = "{labels.configParameter}";

    /** The key of the message: Content */
    public static final String LABELS_CONTENT = "{labels.content}";

    /** The key of the message: CSV Encoding */
    public static final String LABELS_CSV_FILE_ENCODING = "{labels.csvFileEncoding}";

   * loading, or expired. Unlike {@link Segment#getLiveValue} this method does not attempt to clean
   * up stale entries. As such it should only be called outside a segment context, such as during
   * iteration.
   */
  @Nullable V getLiveValue(ReferenceEntry<K, V> entry, long now) {
    if (entry.getKey() == null) {
      return null;
    }

   ([#123461](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123461), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))
- Made decoding etcd's response respect the timeout context.
   ([#121815](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121815), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi))

- Resolves a spurious "Unknown discovery response content-type" error in client-go discovery requests by tolerating extra content-type parameters in API responses ([#117571](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117571), [@seans3](https://github.com/seans3)) [SIG API Machinery]