- Dropped support for the Container Runtime Interface (CRI) version `v1alpha2`, which means that container runtimes just have to implement `v1`. ([#110618](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110618), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

     * even entire message) that simultaneously:
     *
     * - _shouldn't_ be null, so we don't annotate it with @Nullable
     *
     * - _can_ be null without causing a runtime failure (because we don't want the interesting
     *   details of precondition failure to be hidden by an exception we throw about an unexpectedly
     *   null _failure message_)
     *

### SIG Node

            eventTimings.put(type, new AtomicLong(0));
        }

        // Start async logging processor
        startAsyncProcessor();

        // Register shutdown hook
        Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread(this::shutdown));
    }

    private void startAsyncProcessor() {
        logExecutor.submit(() -> {
            while (!shutdown) {
                try {

- With the `KubeletCgroupDriverFromCRI` feature gate enabled and sufficiently new version of a container
  runtime, kubelet automatically detects the cgroup driver config from the container runtime, eliminating

- Fixed an issue in register-gen where imports for k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime and k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema were missing. ([#129307](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129307), [@LionelJouin](https://github.com/LionelJouin)) [SIG API Machinery]

        Exception networkError = new java.io.IOException("Network connection failed");
        Exception timeoutError = new java.net.SocketTimeoutException("Operation timed out");

        // Test fallback logic
        assertTrue(errorHandler.shouldFallbackToTcp(hardwareError), "Hardware errors should suggest TCP fallback");

    /**
     * Converts this map to an array.
     *
     * @param proto
     *            the array into which the elements of this map are to be stored, if it is big enough; otherwise, a new array of the same runtime type is allocated for this purpose.
     * @return the array containing the values of this map
     */
    public V[] toArray(final V[] proto) {
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")

    }
    return accumulator;
  }

  private static boolean isAndroid() {
    return checkNotNull(System.getProperty("java.runtime.name", "")).contains("Android");
  }

  private StatsTesting() {}

         * inside an AbstractIteratorTester<E>, that's implicitly a cast to
         * AbstractIteratorTester<E>.MultiExceptionListIterator. The runtime won't be able to verify
         * the AbstractIteratorTester<E> part, so it's an unchecked cast. We know, however, that the
         * only possible value for the type parameter is <E>, since otherwise the