- Respect annotation size limit for server-side apply updates to the client-side apply annotation. Also, fix opt-out of this behavior by setting the client-side apply annotation to the empty string. ([#102105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102105), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG API Machinery]

  boolean usesKeyReferences() {
    return keyStrength != Strength.STRONG;
  }

  boolean usesValueReferences() {
    return valueStrength != Strength.STRONG;
  }

  enum Strength {
    /*
     * TODO(kevinb): If we strongly reference the value and aren't loading, we needn't wrap the
     * value. This could save ~8 bytes per entry.
     */

    STRONG {
      @Override

map-get($utility, values);\n\n  // If the values are a list or string, convert it into a map\n  @if type-of($values) == \"string\" or type-of(nth($values, 1)) != \"list\" {\n    $values: zip($values, $values);\n  }\n\n  @each $key, $value in $values {\n    $properties: map-get($utility, property);\n\n    // Multiple properties are possible, for example with vertical or horizontal margins or paddings\n    @if type-of($properties) == \"string\" {\n      $properties: append((), $properties);\n    }\n\n...

- Empty values are no longer assigned to undefined resources (CPU or memory) when storing the resources allocated to the pod in checkpoint. ([#117615](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117615), [@aheng-ch](https://github.com/aheng-ch))
- Fixed CEL estimated cost of `replace()` to handle a zero length replacement string correctly.

* fix a bug that overwhelming number of prometheus metrics are generated because $NAMESPACE is not replaced by string "{namespace}" ([#68530](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68530), [@wenjiaswe](https://github.com/wenjiaswe))

- Client-go: fixed potential data races retrying requests using a custom `io.Reader` body; with this fix, only requests with no body or with `string` / `[]byte` / `runtime.Object` bodies can be retried ([#113933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113933), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Updated `etcd` version to `3.5.8`. ([#117335](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117335),...

- Prevent error message from being displayed when running kubectl plugin list and your path includes an empty string ([#87633](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87633), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley)) [SIG CLI]

- Respect annotation size limit for server-side apply updates to the client-side apply annotation. Also, fix opt-out of this behavior by setting the client-side apply annotation to the empty string. ([#102105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102105), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG API Machinery]

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