*   <li>The {@link Predicate} returned by this method catches {@link ClassCastException} and
   *       {@link NullPointerException}.
   *   <li>Code that chains multiple predicates together (especially negations) may be more readable
   *       using this method. For example, {@code not(in(target))} is generally more readable than
   *       {@code not(target::contains)}.

   * given object is also a multiset and contains equal elements with equal counts, regardless of
   * order.
   */
  @Override
  // TODO(kevinb): caveats about equivalence-relation?
  boolean equals(@Nullable Object object);

  /**
   * Returns the hash code for this multiset. This is defined as the sum of
   *
   * {@snippet :

     Licensor. For purposes of this Public License, where the Licensed
     Material is a musical work, performance, or sound recording,
     Adapted Material is always produced where the Licensed Material is
     synched in timed relation with a moving image.

  b. Adapter's License means the license You apply to Your Copyright
     and Similar Rights in Your contributions to Adapted Material in

   * given object is also a multiset and contains equal elements with equal counts, regardless of
   * order.
   */
  @Override
  // TODO(kevinb): caveats about equivalence-relation?
  boolean equals(@Nullable Object object);

  /**
   * Returns the hash code for this multiset. This is defined as the sum of
   *
   * {@snippet :

		// request is supported. At the same time, we cannot allow adding
		// two delete markers on top of any object. To avoid this situation,
		// we will sort deletions to execute existing deletion first,
		// then add only one delete marker if requested
		sort.SliceStable(fivs.Versions, func(i, j int) bool {
			return !fivs.Versions[i].Deleted
		})

  - Don't update capacity if VMSS provisioning state is updating
  - Support allocatable resources overrides via VMSS tags
  - Add missing stable labels in template nodes
  - Proactively set instance status to deleting on node deletions
  
  ### Cluster API
  - Migrate interaction with the API from using internal types to using Unstructured
  - Improve tests to work better with constrained resources
  - Add support for node auto-discovery

### Juju
* The kubernetes-master, kubernetes-worker and kubeapi-load-balancer charms have gained an nrpe-external-master relation, allowing the integration of their monitoring in an external Nagios server. ([#41923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41923), [@Cynerva](https://github.com/Cynerva))

- Relaxed API validation to allow pod node selector to be mutable for gated pods (additions only, no deletions or mutations). ([#116161](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116161), [@danielvegamyhre](https://github.com/danielvegamyhre))

- Fixed `JobTrackingWithFinalizers` that:
  - was declaring a job finished before counting all the created pods in the status
  - was leaving pods with finalizers, blocking pod and job deletions
   `JobTrackingWithFinalizers` is still disabled by default. ([#109486](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109486), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))

- Fix network_programming_latency metric reporting for Endpoints/EndpointSlice deletions, where we don't have correct timestamp ([#95363](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95363), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG Network and Scalability]