* version bump for gci to milestone 53 ([#27210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27210), [@adityakali](https://github.com/adityakali))
* kubectl apply: retry applying a patch if a version conflict error is encountered ([#26557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26557), [@AdoHe](https://github.com/AdoHe))

</pre>

<p>
The following declaration is illegal because field names must be unique
in a struct type:
</p>

<pre>
struct {
	T     // conflicts with embedded field *T and *P.T
	*T    // conflicts with embedded field T and *P.T
	*P.T  // conflicts with embedded field T and *T
}
</pre>

<p>
A field or <a href="#Method_declarations">method</a> <code>f</code> of an

  This bug causes the conformance test "HostPort validates that there is no conflict between pods with same hostPort but different hostIP and protocol" to fail. ([#98838](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98838), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Node]

### Bug or Regression

     * a performance enhancement. The client does not have to filter
     * the names and the server does not have to return all directory
     * entries.
     * <p>
     * The wildcard expression may consist of two special meta
     * characters in addition to the normal filename characters. The '*'
     * character matches any number of characters in part of a name. If

        const string& name = pair.first;
        if ((name == prefix) || absl::StartsWith(name, prefix_cmp)) {
          status->status = InvalidArgument(
              "prefix [", prefix,
              "] conflicts with existing node in the graph named [", name, "]");
          return;
        }
      }
      child_scope_name = prefix;
    }
    tensorflow::Scope scope =

* Fix false positive "meaningful conflict" detection for strategic merge patch with integer values. ([#44788](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44788), [@enisoc](https://github.com/enisoc))

 * a performance enhancement. The client does not have to filter
 * the names and the server does not have to return all directory
 * entries.
 * <p>
 * The wildcard expression may consist of two special meta
 * characters in addition to the normal filename characters. The '*'
 * character matches any number of characters in part of a name. If
 * the expression begins with one or more '?'s then exactly that

* Let service controller retry creating load balancer when persistUpdate failed due to conflict. ([#68087](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68087), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))

- Kube-apiserver: fixed a conflict error encountered attempting to delete a pod with gracePeriodSeconds=0 and a resourceVersion precondition ([#85516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85516), [@michaelgugino](https://github.com/michaelgugino)) [SIG API Machinery]

				if name == "_" {
					continue
				}
				if name != prefix {
					name = strings.TrimPrefix(n.Name, prefix)
				}
				name = upper(name)
				if names[name] {
					// Field name conflict: don't remove prefix.
					prefix = ""
					break fldLoop
				}
				names[name] = true
			}
		}
	}

	npad := 0
	for _, f := range fld {
		for _, n := range f.Names {