### API Change

- 1. PodAffinityTerm includes a namespaceSelector field to allow selecting eligible namespaces based on their labels. 

// hasEC will return true if the version has erasure coding information.
func (x xlMetaV2VersionHeader) hasEC() bool {
	return x.EcM > 0 && x.EcN > 0
}

// sortsBefore can be used as a tiebreaker for stable sorting/selecting.
// Returns false on ties.
func (x xlMetaV2VersionHeader) sortsBefore(o xlMetaV2VersionHeader) bool {
	if x == o {
		return false
	}
	// Prefer newest modtime.
	if x.ModTime != o.ModTime {

## Changelog since v1.16.14

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Correctly handle resetting cpuacct in a live container ([#94040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94040), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Node and Windows]

		}
		globalBackgroundHealState.Unlock()
	}
}

// sets globalIAMSys to `nil`.
func resetGlobalIAMSys() {
	globalIAMSys = nil
}

// Resets all the globals used modified in tests.
// Resetting ensures that the changes made to globals by one test doesn't affect others.
func resetTestGlobals() {
	// set globalObjectAPI to `nil`.
	resetGlobalObjectAPI()
	// Reset config path set.
	resetGlobalConfigPath()

`It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, `the way all the
creatures argue.  It's enough to drive one crazy!'

  The Footman seemed to think this a good opportunity for
repeating his remark, with variations.  `I shall sit here,' he
said, `on and off, for days and days.'

  `But what am I to do?' said Alice.

  `Anything you like,' said the Footman, and began whistling.

* Add --request-timeout to kube-apiserver to make global request timeout configurable. ([#51415](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51415), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

### Bug or Regression

// DaemonEndpoint contains information about a single Daemon endpoint.
message DaemonEndpoint {
  // Port number of the given endpoint.
  optional int32 Port = 1;
}

// Represents downward API info for projecting into a projected volume.
// Note that this is identical to a downwardAPI volume source without the default
// mode.
message DownwardAPIProjection {
  // Items is a list of DownwardAPIVolume file
  // +optional

- On compatible systems, a mounter's Unmount implementation is changed to not return an error when the specified target can be detected as not a mount point. On Linux, the behavior of detecting a mount point depends on `umount` command is validated when the mounter is created. Additionally, mount point checks will be skipped in CleanupMountPoint/CleanupMountWithForce if the mounter's Unmount having the changed behavior of not returning...

- Fixed an issue in the kubelet that showed when writeable layers and read-only layers were at different paths within the same mount.
  Kubernetes was previously detecting that the image filesystem was split, even when that was not really the case. ([#126562](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126562), [@kannon92](https://github.com/kannon92)) [SIG Node]