- Improved performance of the job controller when handling job delete events. ([#127378](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127378), [@hakuna-matatah](https://github.com/hakuna-matatah))
- Improved performance of the job controller when handling job update events. ([#127228](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127228), [@hakuna-matatah](https://github.com/hakuna-matatah))

## Changelog since v1.23.4

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

## Changelog since v1.18.3

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Resolve regression in metadata.managedFields handling in update/patch requests submitted by older API clients ([#92007](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92007), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

### Feature

* Fix scheduling starvation of pods in cluster with large number of unschedulable pods. ([#71488](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71488), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))
* Fixes an issue with stuck connections handling error responses ([#71419](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71419), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

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//
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// http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/UsingMetadata.html
//
// You should avoid the following characters in a key name because of
// significant special handling for consistency across all
// applications.
//
// Rejects strings with following characters.
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        }
    }

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Properties handling
    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    void populateProperties(
            CommandLine commandLine, Properties paths, Properties systemProperties, Properties userProperties)

- Fixes calculating the requeue time in the cronjob controller, which results in properly handling failed/stuck jobs ([#121327](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121327), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG Apps]

## Changelog since v1.16.10

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Resolve regression in metadata.managedFields handling in update/patch requests submitted by older API clients ([#91748](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91748), [@apelisse](https://github.com/apelisse)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

### Feature

- Fixes a race condition in kubelet pod handling ([#94774](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94774), [@auxten](https://github.com/auxten)) [SIG Node]

   * a checked exception. This makes {@code Future} more suitable for lightweight, fast-running
   * tasks that, barring bugs in the code, will not fail. This gives it exception-handling behavior
   * similar to that of {@code ForkJoinTask.join}.
   *
   * <p>Exceptions from {@code Future.get} are treated as follows:
   *
   * <ul>