- Added the `DetectCacheInconsistency` feature gate, allowing the API server to periodically verify consistency between its `cache` and `etcd`. Detected inconsistencies reported via the `apiserver_storage_consistency_checks_total` metric and trigger purging of affected cache snapshots. ([#132884](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132884), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG...

     disabled by setting the `--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-use-rest-clients` flag to `false`.

### Cluster Lifecycle

- The `auto-detect` behavior of the kubelet's `--cloud-provider` flag is deprecated.

  - In version 1.8, the default value for the kubelet's `--cloud-provider` flag is `auto-detect`. Be aware that it works only on GCE, AWS and Azure.

     * <code>S-X-Y-Z</code> strings of fragments of).
     * <p>
     * Alternatively <code>getSecurity(true)</code> may be used to resolve all
     * SIDs together and detect network failures.
     *
     * @return array of ACEs
     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
     */
    ACE[] getSecurity() throws IOException;

    /**

* **[beta]** Node Problem Detector is beta (v0.3.0) now. New
  features added into node-problem-detector:v0.3.0:
  - Add support for journald.
  - The ability to monitor any system daemon logs. Previously only kernel
    logs were supported.

     * Get the value for the key 'indexer.language.detect.length'. <br>
     * The value is, e.g. 1000 <br>
     * comment: Length of text for language detection in the indexer.
     * @return The value of found property. (NotNull: if not found, exception but basically no way)
     */
    String getIndexerLanguageDetectLength();

    /**
     * Get the value for the key 'indexer.language.detect.length' as {@link Integer}. <br>

- kubelet now defaults to `--cloud-provider=auto-detect`, use `--cloud-provider=''` to preserve previous default of no cloud provider (#28258, @vishh)

## Previous Releases Included in v1.4.0

  }

  @Test
  fun emptyCache() {
    cache.close()
    assertJournalEquals()
  }

  @Test
  fun recoverFromInitializationFailure() {
    // Add an uncommitted entry. This will get detected on initialization, and the cache will
    // attempt to delete the file. Do not explicitly close the cache here so the entry is left as
    // incomplete.
    val creator = cache.edit("k1")!!

 *  New: Handy constants for `Headers.EMPTY`, `RequestBody.EMPTY`, and `ResponseBody.EMPTY`.

 *  New: OkHttp now calls `StrictMode.noteSlowCall()` when initializing TLS on Android. Use
    `StrictMode` to detect if your `OkHttpClient` is being initialized on the main thread.

 *  Upgrade: [Okio 3.12.0][okio_3_12_0].

 *  Upgrade: [Kotlin 2.1.21][kotlin_2_1_21].

- We will no longer automatically delete all data when a failure is detected during creation of the volume data file on a CSI volume. Now we will only remove the data file and volume path. ([#96021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96021), [@huffmanca](https://github.com/huffmanca)) [SIG Storage]

- We will no longer automatically delete all data when a failure is detected during creation of the volume data file on a CSI volume. Now we will only remove the data file and volume path. ([#96021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96021), [@huffmanca](https://github.com/huffmanca)) [SIG Storage]