* Switch to instance-level update APIs for Azure VMSS loadbalancer operations ([#76656](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76656), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* kubeadm: kubeadm alpha cert renew now ignores certificates signed by external CAs ([#76865](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76865), [@fabriziopandini](https://github.com/fabriziopandini))

    }

    // instance method ignored
    public Object badIgnored() {
      return new BadEquals();
    }

    // primitive ignored
    public int returnsInt() {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    // void ignored
    public void voidMethod() {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    // non-public method ignored
    static Object badButNotPublic() {

- Kube-controller-manager: the dynamic resource controller steps in when a pod got created such that the scheduler ignores it (i.e. spec.nodeName is set) and then takes care of triggering delayed resource claim allocation and/or reserving a claim for the pod. ([#118209](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118209), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API...

- The `StructuredAuthenticationConfiguration` feature is now beta and enabled. ([#123719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123719), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))
- The `kube_codegen` tool now ignores the vendor folder during code generation.
   ([#122729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122729), [@jparrill](https://github.com/jparrill))

* MAC Address filter has been fixed in vSphere Cloud Provider, it no longer ignores `00:1c:14` and `00:05:69` prefixes ([#73721](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73721), [@frapposelli](https://github.com/frapposelli))

            dynamicCircuitBreaker.updateFailureThreshold(7);
            assertEquals(7, dynamicCircuitBreaker.getCurrentFailureThreshold(), "Threshold should be updated");

            // Test that invalid threshold is ignored
            dynamicCircuitBreaker.updateFailureThreshold(-1);
            assertEquals(7, dynamicCircuitBreaker.getCurrentFailureThreshold(), "Threshold should not change for invalid value");

        } finally {

              // Ignore this attribute, it isn't recognizable as a date.
            }
          }
          attributeName.equals("max-age", ignoreCase = true) -> {
            try {
              deltaSeconds = parseMaxAge(attributeValue)
              persistent = true
            } catch (_: NumberFormatException) {
              // Ignore this attribute, it isn't recognizable as a max age.

                // Invalid value ignored
            }
        }

        value = props.getProperty("jcifs.smb.client.soTimeout");
        if (value != null) {
            try {
                this.smbSocketTimeout = Integer.parseInt(value);
            } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
                // Invalid value ignored
            }
        }

  /**
   * Returns an immutable set containing the given elements, minus duplicates, in the order each was
   * first specified. That is, if multiple elements are {@linkplain Object#equals equal}, all except
   * the first are ignored.
   */
  public static <E> ImmutableSet<E> of(E e1, E e2) {
    return new RegularSetBuilderImpl<E>(2).add(e1).add(e2).review().build();
  }

  /**

    assertEquals(UPPER, Ascii.toUpperCase(LOWER));
    assertSame(UPPER, Ascii.toUpperCase(UPPER));
    assertEquals(IGNORED, Ascii.toUpperCase(IGNORED));
    assertEquals("FOOBAR", Ascii.toUpperCase("FoOBAr"));
  }

  public void testCharsIgnored() {
    for (char c : IGNORED.toCharArray()) {
      String str = String.valueOf(c);
      assertEquals(str, c, Ascii.toLowerCase(c));