- ACTION REQUIRED: Switch core master base images (kube-controller-manager) from debian to distroless. If you need Flex Volumes support using scripts, please build your own image with required packages (like bash) ([#91329](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91329), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Release, Storage and Testing]

* BugFix: Exited containers are not Garbage Collected by the kubelet while the pod is running ([#53167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53167), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
* - Improved generation of deb and rpm packages in bazel build ([#53163](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53163), [@kad](https://github.com/kad))

## Changelog since v1.21.11

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes error handling in a kubectl method used in downstream packages. ([#108521](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108521), [@heybronson](https://github.com/heybronson)) [SIG CLI]

- Default burst limit for the discovery client set to 300. ([#109141](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109141), [@ulucinar](https://github.com/ulucinar))
- Deleted the `apimachinery/clock` package. Please use `k8s.io/utils/clock` package instead. ([#109752](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109752), [@MadhavJivrajani](https://github.com/MadhavJivrajani))

- Fixes error handling in a kubectl method used in downstream packages. ([#107938](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107938), [@heybronson](https://github.com/heybronson)) [SIG CLI]

- Fixes error handling in a kubectl method used in downstream packages. ([#108520](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108520), [@heybronson](https://github.com/heybronson)) [SIG CLI]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed

// license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // Package check implements the FIPS 140 load-time code+data verification. // Every FIPS package providing cryptographic functionality except hmac and sha256 // must import crypto/internal/fips140/check, so that the verification happens // before initialization of package global variables. // The hmac and sha256 packages are used by this package, so they cannot import it. // Instead, those packages must be careful not to change global variables during...

import java.lang.annotation.Target;
import org.jspecify.annotations.NullMarked;

/**
 * Disables Animal Sniffer's checking of compatibility with older versions of Java/Android.
 *
 * <p>Each package's copy of this annotation needs to be listed in our {@code pom.xml}.
 */
@Target({METHOD, CONSTRUCTOR, TYPE, FIELD})
@NullMarked

// license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // Package check implements the FIPS 140 load-time code+data verification. // Every FIPS package providing cryptographic functionality except hmac and sha256 // must import crypto/internal/fips140/check, so that the verification happens // before initialization of package global variables. // The hmac and sha256 packages are used by this package, so they cannot import it. // Instead, those packages must be careful not to change global variables during...

        boolean packaged = false;
        for (String phase : getLifecycles(project)) {
            switch (phase) {
                case "clean":
                    packaged = false;
                    break;
                case "package":
                case "install":
                case "deploy":
                    packaged = true;
                    break;