- Fixed a regression in default configurations, which enabled PodDisruptionConditions by default, 
  that prevented the control plane's pod garbage collector from deleting pods that contained duplicated field keys (env. variables with repeated keys or container ports). ([#121379](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121379), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Node, Scheduling and Testing]

		userPolicyMappingsFile: `{
  "foo": {
    "version": 0,
    "policy": "readwrite",
    "updatedAt": "2024-04-23T21:34:43.815519816Z"
  }
}
`,
		// Contains:
		//
		// 1. duplicate mapping with same policy, we should not error out;
		//
		// 2. non-LDAP group mapping, we should not error out;
		groupPolicyMappingsFile: `{
    "cn=project.c,ou=groups,ou=swengg,DC=min,dc=io": {

### SIG Storage

- The AllowedTopologies field inside StorageClass is now validated against set and map semantics. Specifically, there cannot be duplicate TopologySelectorTerms, MatchLabelExpressions keys, or TopologySelectorLabelRequirement Values. ([#66843](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66843), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

- EndpointSlice controllers are less likely to create duplicate EndpointSlices. ([#100103](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100103), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- Improvements were made to `kubeadm reset` related to cleaning  etcd and notifying the user about the state of iptables.
- kubeadm commands now print warnings if input YAML documents contain unknown or duplicate fields.
- kubeadm now properly recognizes Docker 18.09.0 and newer, but still treats 18.06 as the default supported version.
- kubeadm now automatically sets the `--pod-infra-container-image` flag when starting the kubelet.

* kubectl and client-go now detect duplicated names for user, cluster and context when loading kubeconfig and report this condition as an error.  ([#60464](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60464), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw))

	c.Assert(err, nil)
	// execute the HTTP request.
	response3, err := s.client.Do(request)
	c.Assert(err, nil)
	c.Assert(response3.StatusCode, http.StatusOK)

	// The reason to duplicate this structure here is to verify if the
	// unmarshalling works from a client perspective, specifically
	// while unmarshalling time.Time type for 'Initiated' field.

- Fixed a regression in default 1.26 configurations, which enabled PodDisruptionConditions by default, 
  that prevented the control plane's pod garbage collector from deleting pods that contained duplicated field keys (env. variables with repeated keys or container ports). ([#121381](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121381), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Scheduling and Testing]

            [] if middleware is None else list(middleware)
        )
        self.middleware_stack: Union[ASGIApp, None] = None
        self.setup()

    def build_middleware_stack(self) -> ASGIApp:
        # Duplicate/override from Starlette to add AsyncExitStackMiddleware
        # inside of ExceptionMiddleware, inside of custom user middlewares
        debug = self.debug
        error_handler = None

* Bumps metrics-server version to v0.3.6 with following bugfix: ([#83907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83907), [@olagacek](https://github.com/olagacek))
        *  Don't break metric storage when duplicate pod metrics encountered causing hpa to fail
* kube-apiserver: Fixed a regression accepting patch requests > 1MB ([#84963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84963), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))