* comparator is not <i>consistent with equals</i>), the results of this method are undefined.
   *
   * <p>Despite the method name, this method attempts to avoid actually copying the data when it is
   * safe to do so. The exact circumstances under which a copy will or will not be performed are
   * undocumented and subject to change.
   *

   * comparator is not <i>consistent with equals</i>), the results of this method are undefined.
   *
   * <p>Despite the method name, this method attempts to avoid actually copying the data when it is
   * safe to do so. The exact circumstances under which a copy will or will not be performed are
   * undocumented and subject to change.
   *

	// can easily eat into the internode bandwidth. This function would be mostly
	// TX saturating, however there are situations where a RX might also saturate.
	// To avoid these problems we must split the work at scale. With 1000 node
	// setup becoming a reality we must try to shard the work properly such as
	// pick 10 nodes that precisely can send those 100 requests the first node

## Changelog since v1.16.6

## Changes by Kind

### Other (Bug, Cleanup or Flake)

- Bind metrics-server containers to linux nodes to avoid Windows scheduling on kubernetes cluster includes linux nodes and windows nodes ([#87022](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87022), [@wawa0210](https://github.com/wawa0210)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

                bind(CoreExports.class).toInstance(exports);
                bind(MessageBuilderFactory.class).toInstance(messageBuilderFactory);
            }
        });

        // NOTE: To avoid inconsistencies, we'll use the TCCL exclusively for lookups
        container.setLookupRealm(null);
        Thread.currentThread().setContextClassLoader(container.getContainerRealm());

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

  scope: Namespaced
  versions:
  - additionalPrinterColumns:
    - jsonPath: .spec.autoAssign
      name: Auto Assign
      type: boolean
    - jsonPath: .spec.avoidBuggyIPs
      name: Avoid Buggy IPs
      type: boolean
    - jsonPath: .spec.addresses
      name: Addresses
      type: string
    name: v1beta1
    schema:
      openAPIV3Schema:

- Kubeadm: only taint control plane nodes when the legacy "master" taint is present. This avoids a bug where "kubeadm upgrade" will re-taint a control plane node with the new "control plane" taint even if the user explicitly untainted the node. ([#109841](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109841), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))...

* Filter published OpenAPI schema by making nullable, required fields non-required in order to avoid kubectl to wrongly reject null values. ([#85722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85722), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

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