release.  A new alpha feature is introduced to improve the mechanism that nodes heartbeat back to the control plane.  The `NodeLease` feature results in the node using a `Lease` resource in the `kube-node-lease` namespace that is renewed periodically.  The `NodeStatus` that was used previously to heartbeat back to the control plane is only updated when it changes.  This reduces load on the control plane for large clusters. The Kubelet plugin registration mechanism, which enables automatic discovery of external...

- kubeadm: Promoted the feature gate `ControlPlaneKubeletLocalMode` to Beta. By default, kubeadm will use the local kube-apiserver endpoint for the kubelet when creating a cluster with `kubeadm init` or when joining control plane nodes with `kubeadm join`. Enabling the feature gate also affects the...

   * <p>Note: Direct testing of the {@link IOException} scenario during write/flush is challenging
   * without mocking. This test verifies that normal operation with threshold crossing still works
   * correctly with the fix in place.
   */
  public void testThresholdCrossing_resourceManagement() throws Exception {
    FileBackedOutputStream out = new FileBackedOutputStream(/* fileThreshold= */ 10);
    ByteSource source = out.asByteSource();

          exec.awaitTermination(2 * LONG_DELAY_MS, MILLISECONDS));
    } catch (SecurityException ok) {
      // Allowed in case test doesn't have privs
    }
  }

  /** The number of elements to place in collections, arrays, etc. */
  static final int SIZE = 20;

  /** Returns a new started daemon Thread running the given runnable. */
  final Thread newStartedThread(Runnable runnable) {

     */
    public boolean isDeleted() {
        return isUpdated() && newInputs.length == 0;
    }

    /**
     * Sorts both the current inputs and new inputs arrays in place.
     * This ensures consistent ordering for comparison and equality operations.
     */
    public void sort() {
        if (inputs != null) {
            Arrays.sort(inputs);
        }

      } else {
        // Four-byte form.
        if (index + 2 >= end) {
          return false;
        }
        int byte2 = bytes[index++];
        if (byte2 > (byte) 0xBF
            // Check that 1 <= plane <= 16. Tricky optimized form of:
            // if (byte1 > (byte) 0xF4
            //     || byte1 == (byte) 0xF0 && byte2 < (byte) 0x90
            //     || byte1 == (byte) 0xF4 && byte2 > (byte) 0x8F)

      } else {
        // Four-byte form.
        if (index + 2 >= end) {
          return false;
        }
        int byte2 = bytes[index++];
        if (byte2 > (byte) 0xBF
            // Check that 1 <= plane <= 16. Tricky optimized form of:
            // if (byte1 > (byte) 0xF4
            //     || byte1 == (byte) 0xF0 && byte2 < (byte) 0x90
            //     || byte1 == (byte) 0xF4 && byte2 > (byte) 0x8F)

   *       for well formed characters. A {@code CharEscaper} should not be used in situations where
   *       input is not guaranteed to be restricted to the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
   * </ul>
   *
   * @param string the literal string to be escaped
   * @return the escaped form of {@code string}
   * @throws NullPointerException if {@code string} is null

    extends AbstractSetMultimap<K, V> implements SortedSetMultimap<K, V> {
  /**
   * Creates a new multimap that uses the provided map.
   *
   * @param map place to store the mapping from each key to its corresponding values
   */
  protected AbstractSortedSetMultimap(Map<K, Collection<V>> map) {
    super(map);
  }

  @Override
  abstract SortedSet<V> createCollection();

- Kubeadm: updated the supported etcd version to v3.5.23 for supported control plane versions v1.31, v1.32, and v1.33. ([#134692](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134692), [@joshjms](https://github.com/joshjms)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Etcd]