- The `pod_scheduling_duration_seconds` metrics won't consider the time when a pod fails `PreEnqueue` (like being gated). ([#118049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118049), [@helayoty](https://github.com/helayoty))
- The kube-proxy `sync_proxy_rules_iptables_total` metric has now reverted back

        <field>
          <name>checksumPolicy</name>
          <version>4.0.0+</version>
          <description>
            What to do when verification of an artifact checksum fails. Valid values are
            {@code ignore},
            {@code fail} (default for Maven 4 and above) or
            {@code warn} (default for Maven 3).
          </description>
          <type>String</type>
        </field>
      </fields>

            Integer fail1 = SmbTransportPoolImpl.this.failCounts.get(o1.getHostAddress());
            Integer fail2 = SmbTransportPoolImpl.this.failCounts.get(o2.getHostAddress());
            if (fail1 == null) {
                fail1 = 0;
            }
            if (fail2 == null) {
                fail2 = 0;
            }
            return Integer.compare(fail1, fail2);
        });

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* FIX: The OpenStack cloud providers DeleteRoute method fails to delete routes when it can’t find the corresponding instance in OpenStack. ([#62729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62729), [@databus23](https://github.com/databus23))

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    - [CSI Health Monitoring](#csi-health-monitoring)
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    }

    @Test
    void testOpenConnection_NullSystemProperty_UsesDefaultHandlers() throws Exception {
        // This test verifies that when the system property is null, the handler
        // falls back to using default handlers without throwing NullPointerException.
        System.clearProperty("java.protocol.handler.pkgs");
        setupMockProtocolHandlers();
        URL url = new URL("http://example.com/resource");

- Fixed a bug where init containers may fail to start due to a temporary container runtime failure. ([#127213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127213), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Node]

    // If the class is accessible to the system ClassLoader (ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader())
    // then FRQ does not bother to load Finalizer.class through a separate ClassLoader. That happens
    // in our test environment, which foils the purpose of this test, so we disable the logic for
    // our test by setting a static field. We are changing the field in the parallel version of FRQ