* Iterator}. Except as noted, each method has a corresponding {@link Iterable}-based method in the
 * {@link Iterables} class.
 *
 * <p><i>Performance notes:</i> Unless otherwise noted, all of the iterators produced in this class
 * are <i>lazy</i>, which means that they only advance the backing iteration when absolutely
 * necessary.
 *

mitigation to avoid disrupting load balancer → kube-apiserver connections if http/2 requests from multiple clients share the same backend connection. An API server on a private network may choose not to enable the kube-apiserver mitigation to prevent performance regressions for unauthenticated clients. Authenticated requests rely on the fix in golang.org/x/net v0.17.0 alone. https://issue.k8s.io/121197 tracks further mitigation of http/2 attacks by authenticated clients. ([#121201](https://github.com/k...

    } else {
      return new ImmutableSortedMap<>(ImmutableSortedSet.emptySet(comparator), ImmutableList.of());
    }
  }

  /**
   * Returns the empty sorted map.
   *
   * <p><b>Performance note:</b> the instance returned is a singleton.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  // unsafe, comparator() returns a comparator on the specified type

### etcd moves to version 3.5.0

- Fix: initial delay in mounting azure disk & file ([#93052](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93052), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fixed a performance issue applying json patches to deeply nested objects ([#93813](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93813), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider and Cluster Lifecycle]

- Kubectl create service now respects namespace flag ([#101005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101005), [@zxh326](https://github.com/zxh326)) [SIG CLI]
- Kubelet: improve the performance when waiting for a synchronization of the node list with the kube-apiserver ([#99336](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99336), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Node]

      SortedMap<K, V> unfiltered, Predicate<? super K> keyPredicate) {
    // TODO(lowasser): Return a subclass of FilteredKeyMap for slightly better performance.
    return filterEntries(unfiltered, keyPredicateOnEntries(keyPredicate));
  }

  /**
   * Returns a navigable map containing the mappings in {@code unfiltered} whose keys satisfy a

      SortedMap<K, V> unfiltered, Predicate<? super K> keyPredicate) {
    // TODO(lowasser): Return a subclass of FilteredKeyMap for slightly better performance.
    return filterEntries(unfiltered, keyPredicateOnEntries(keyPredicate));
  }

  /**
   * Returns a navigable map containing the mappings in {@code unfiltered} whose keys satisfy a

- The SchedulerAsyncAPICalls feature gate has been disabled to mitigate a bug where its interaction with asynchronous preemption in could degrade kube-scheduler performance, particularly under high kube-apiserver load. ([#134401](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134401), [@macsko](https://github.com/macsko)) [SIG Scheduling]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

* Resolves bottleneck in internal API server communication that can cause increased goroutines and degrade API Server performance ([#80465](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80465), [@answer1991](https://github.com/answer1991))
* Update to go 1.12.10 ([#83139](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83139), [@cblecker](https://github.com/cblecker))