strategicmerge patchMergeKey for VolumeMounts was changed from "name" to "mountPath".  This was necessary because the name field refers to the name of the Volume, and is not a unique key for the VolumeMount.  Multiple VolumeMounts will have the same Volume name if mounting the same volume more than once.  The "mountPath" is verified to be unique and can act as the mergekey.  ([#35071](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35071), [@pwittrock](https://github.com/pwittrock))

## Deprecations...

func (sys *IAMSys) updateGroupMembershipsForLDAP(ctx context.Context) {
	// 1. Collect all LDAP users with active creds.
	allCreds := sys.store.GetSTSAndServiceAccounts()
	// List of unique LDAP (parent) user DNs that have active creds
	var parentUserActualDNList []string
	// Map of LDAP user (internal representation) to list of active credential objects
	parentUserToCredsMap := make(map[string][]auth.Credentials)

		metrics := []MetricV2{
			{
				Description: MetricDescription{
					Namespace: nodeMetricNamespace,
					Subsystem: scannerSubsystem,
					Name:      "objects_scanned",
					Help:      "Total number of unique objects scanned since server uptime",
					Type:      counterMetric,
				},
				Value: float64(globalScannerMetrics.lifetime(scannerMetricScanObject)),
			},
			{
				Description: MetricDescription{

- kubelet: Resolved hang/timeout issues when running large numbers of pods with unique `ConfigMap/Secret` references ([#74755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74755), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

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- Kubelet external Credential Provider feature is moved to GA. Credential Provider Plugin and Credential Provider Config APIs updated...

ontext","leadingRelative","implicitRelative","matchContext","matchAnyContext","elementMatchers","setMatchers","bySet","byElement","superMatcher","outermost","matchedCount","setMatched","contextBackup","dirrunsUnique","token","compiled","filters","unique","getText","isXML","selectors","until","truncate","is","siblings","n","rneedsContext","rsingleTag","winnow","qualifier","self","rootjQuery","parseHTML","ready","rparentsprev","guaranteedUnique","children","contents","prev","sibling","cur","target...

* kubelet: resolved hang/timeout issues when running large numbers of pods with unique configmap/secret references ([#74755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74755), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

#### GlusterFS

- Kube-apiserver: Each unique set of etcd server overrides specified with `--etcd-servers-overrides` surfaced health checks named `etcd-override-<index>` and `etcd-override-readiness-<index>`. These checks were still excluded by the `?exclude=etcd` and `?exclude=etcd-readiness`...