}

    return new StringBuilder(maxLength)
        .append(seq, 0, truncationLength)
        .append(truncationIndicator)
        .toString();
  }

  /**
   * Indicates whether the contents of the given character sequences {@code s1} and {@code s2} are
   * equal, ignoring the case of any ASCII alphabetic characters between {@code 'a'} and {@code 'z'}
   * or {@code 'A'} and {@code 'Z'} inclusive.
   *

To cache responses, you'll need a cache directory that you can read and write to, and a limit on the cache's size. The cache directory should be private, and untrusted applications should not be able to read its contents!

   * Collections2#transform} or {@link Iterables#transform}.
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> serializing the returned list is implemented by serializing {@code fromList},
   * its contents, and {@code function} -- <i>not</i> by serializing the transformed values. This
   * can lead to surprising behavior, so serializing the returned list is <b>not recommended</b>.

                    + "Do NOT select documents about different or merely related topics. "
                    + "Do NOT select table-of-contents or index pages that lack substantive content. "
                    + "Respond with JSON only. Do not include any text outside the JSON object.\n\n"

 *
 * <p>The caches produced by {@code CacheBuilder} are serializable, and the deserialized caches
 * retain all the configuration properties of the original cache. Note that the serialized form does
 * <i>not</i> include cache contents, but only configuration.
 *
 * <p>See the Guava User Guide article on <a
 * href="https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/CachesExplained">caching</a> for a higher-level
 * explanation.
 *

### Immutable Secrets and ConfigMaps

Immutable Secrets and ConfigMaps graduates to GA. This feature allows users to specify that the contents of a particular Secret or ConfigMap is immutable for its object lifetime. For such instances, Kubelet will not watch/poll for changes and therefore reducing apiserver load.

### Structured Logging in Kubelet

  termination message log file. The termination message file is now properly
  readable for end users and has a maximum size (4k bytes) to prevent abuse.
  Each pod may have up to 12k bytes of termination messages before the contents
  of each will be truncated.
* Do not delete pod objects until all its compute resource footprint has been
  reclaimed.
  - This feature prevents the node and scheduler from oversubscribing resources

* Adds --append-hash flag to kubectl create configmap/secret, which will append a short hash of the configmap/secret contents to the name during creation. ([#49961](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49961), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

*   `kubectl cp` now honors destination names for directories. A complete directory is now copied; in previous versions only the file contents were copied. ([#51215](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51215),[ @juanvallejo](https://github.com/juanvallejo))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Client-go header logging (at verbosity levels >= 9) now masks `Authorization` header contents ([#95316](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95316), [@sfowl](https://github.com/sfowl)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed