- Fixed a bug in the TopologyManager. Previously, the TopologyManager would only guarantee alignment if container creation was serialized in some way. Alignment is now guaranteed under all scenarios of container creation. ([#87759](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87759), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska)) [SIG Node]

- Fixed a bug in the Job controller that could result in creating unnecessary Pods for Jobs already marked as finished (either successful or failed). ([#130333](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130333), [@kmala](https://github.com/kmala)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

				t.Errorf("last appended result was %s; want %s", x, want)
			}
		}
	}
}

// Test case for any function which accepts and returns a byte slice.
// For ease of creation, we write the input byte slice as a string.
type StringTest struct {
	in  string
	out []byte
}

var upperTests = []StringTest{
	{"", []byte("")},
	{"ONLYUPPER", []byte("ONLYUPPER")},

}

// getPoolIdx returns the found previous object and its corresponding pool idx,
// if none are found falls back to most available space pool, this function is
// designed to be only used by PutObject, CopyObject (newObject creation) and NewMultipartUpload.
func (z *erasureServerPools) getPoolIdx(ctx context.Context, bucket, object string, size int64) (idx int, err error) {
	pinfo, _, err := z.getPoolInfoExistingWithOpts(ctx, bucket, object, ObjectOptions{

- Fix performance issue when creating large objects using SSA with fully unspecified schemas (preserveUnknownFields). ([#111915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111915), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Auth, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Storage and Testing]

  - [KEP]: <link>
  - [Usage]: <link>
  - [Other doc]: <link>
  --> ([#119495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119495), [@bzsuni](https://github.com/bzsuni)) [SIG API Machinery]

       * elements from each bin must either stay at same index, or move with a power of two offset.
       * We eliminate unnecessary node creation by catching cases where old nodes can be reused
       * because their next fields won't change. Statistically, at the default threshold, only

### Bug or Regression

- Fix Topology Aware Hints not working when the `topology.kubernetes.io/zone` label is added after Node creation
  - Fix a data race in TopologyCache when `AddHints` and `SetNodes` are called concurrently ([#117268](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117268), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps and Network]

		// make sure to always use path.Join here, do not use pathJoin as
		// it would additionally add `/` at the end and it comes in the
		// way of renameAll(), parentDir creation.
		dstDataPath = pathutil.Join(dstVolumeDir, dstPath, dataDir)
	}

	if err = checkPathLength(srcFilePath); err != nil {
		return res, err
	}

	if err = checkPathLength(dstFilePath); err != nil {

**Affected Versions**:
  - kube-apiserver v1.32.0 - v1.32.5