- Apiserver adds two new metrics `etcd_requests_total` and `etcd_request_errors_total` that allow users to monitor requests to etcd storage, split by operation and resource type. ([#117222](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117222), [@iyear](https://github.com/iyear))...

de feature gate. It can be used to tell kubeadm to 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".  The "kubeadm join" workflow now includes two new experimental phases called "control-plane-join-etcd" and "kubelet-wait-bootstrap" which will be used when the feature gate is enabled. This phases will be marked as non-experimental when ControlPlaneKubeletLocalMode becomes GA. During "kubeadm upgrade"...

func Equal(a, b []byte) bool {
	// Neither cmd/compile nor gccgo allocates for these string conversions.
	return string(a) == string(b)
}

// Compare returns an integer comparing two byte slices lexicographically.
// The result will be 0 if a == b, -1 if a < b, and +1 if a > b.
// A nil argument is equivalent to an empty slice.
func Compare(a, b []byte) int {
	return bytealg.Compare(a, b)
}

  * `--basic-auth-file` supports optionally specifying groups in the fourth column of the file ([#39651](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39651), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* API server now has two separate limits for read-only and mutating inflight requests. ([#36064](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36064), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))

    assertFailsWith<InterruptedIOException> {
      // If this succeeds, too many requests were made.
      client.newCall(request).execute()
    }
  }

  /**
   * Make a request with two routes. The first route will time out because it's connecting to a
   * special address that never connects. The automatic retry will succeed.
   */
  @Test
  fun connectTimeoutsAttemptsAlternateRoute() {

  Jobs that are tracked using this mechanism get the annotation `batch.kubernetes.io/job-tracking`. This is a temporary measure. Two releases after this feature graduates to beta, the annotation won't be added to Jobs anymore. ([#98817](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98817), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))

### Extending Ingress with and replacing a deprecated annotation with IngressClass

 * AsyncCacheLoader.asyncLoad}</a> must return a {@code CompletableFuture}. Users of Guava's {@link
 * com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListenableFuture} can adapt between the two {@code Future}
 * types by using <a href="https://github.com/lukas-krecan/future-converter#java8-guava">{@code
 * net.javacrumbs.futureconverter.java8guava.FutureConverter}</a>.
 *
 * <h2>More on {@code CacheBuilder}</h2>
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		// TestXLStorage case with io error count set to 1.
		// expected not to fail.
		{
			srcVol:      "src-vol",
			destVol:     "dest-vol",
			srcPath:     "file3",
			destPath:    "file-two",
			expectedErr: nil,
		},
		// TestXLStorage case - 5.
		// TestXLStorage case with io error count set to maximum allowed count.
		// expected not to fail.
		{
			srcVol:      "src-vol",