* Fix bug where master startup script on GCP failed randomly due to concurrent iptables invocations. ([#55945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55945), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))



# v1.8.4

# to make sure all Genrule targets are excuted locally.
build:rbe_cross_compile_base_xla --config=rbe_cross_compile_base
build:rbe_cross_compile_base_xla --strategy=Genrule=standalone

# Due to the above strategy, all Genrule commands are executed locally, but the
# following actions invoke tools (E.g `flatc`, `llvm-tblgen`, etc.) that are
# only executabe on the RBE (x86) machine, so the strategy_regexp options are

	// Find the field start and end indices.
	// Doing this in a separate pass (rather than slicing the string s
	// and collecting the result substrings right away) is significantly
	// more efficient, possibly due to cache effects.
	start := -1 // valid span start if >= 0
	for i := 0; i < len(s); {
		size := 1
		r := rune(s[i])
		if r >= utf8.RuneSelf {
			r, size = utf8.DecodeRune(s[i:])
		}
		if f(r) {

* Fix kubelet start failure issue on Azure Stack due to InstanceMetadata setting ([#74936](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74936), [@rjaini](https://github.com/rjaini))

     * same notion of equivalence.
     *
     * @return a reference to {@code set}, for convenience
     */
    // Note: S should logically extend Set<? super E> but can't due to either
    // some javac bug or some weirdness in the spec, not sure which.
    @CanIgnoreReturnValue
    public <S extends Set<E>> S copyInto(S set) {
      set.addAll(this);
      return set;
    }

- Setting a mirror pod's phase to Succeeded or Failed can prevent the corresponding static pod from restarting due mutation of a Kubelet cache. ([#116482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116482), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

* Limit use of tags when calling EC2 API to prevent API throttling for very large clusters ([#76749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76749), [@mcrute](https://github.com/mcrute))
* fix azure disk naming matching issue due to case sensitive comparison ([#81720](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81720), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

		go func() {
			respBytes, apiErr, errMsg := globalAllHealState.LaunchNewHealSequence(nh, objectAPI)
			hr := healResp{respBytes, apiErr, errMsg}
			respCh <- hr
		}()
	}

	// Due to the force-starting functionality, the Launch
	// call above can take a long time - to keep the
	// connection alive, we start sending whitespace
	keepConnLive(w, r, respCh)
}

	}
}

func TestFindInBatchesWithError(t *testing.T) {
	if name := DB.Dialector.Name(); name == "sqlserver" {
		t.Skip("skip sqlserver due to it will raise data race for invalid sql")
	}

	users := []User{
		*GetUser("find_in_batches_with_error", Config{}),
		*GetUser("find_in_batches_with_error", Config{}),

* fix detach azure disk issue due to dirty cache ([#71495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71495), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))