Files.createDirectories(stateDirectory);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            log.error("Failed to create handle state directory", e);
        }
        
        // Load persisted handles on startup
        loadPersistedHandles();
        
        // Schedule periodic persistence
        scheduler.scheduleAtFixedRate(this::persistHandles, 30, 30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    }
    

- Added metrics for volume reconstruction during kubelet startup. ([#115965](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115965), [@jsafran...

  - The `Node` authorization mode no longer allows kubelets to delete their Node API objects (prior to 1.11, in rare circumstances related to cloudprovider node ID changes, kubelets would attempt to delete/recreate their Node object at startup) ([#71021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71021), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fix kubelet to properly log when a container is started. Previously, kubelet may log that container is dead and was restarted when it was actually started for the first time. This behavior only happened on pods with initContainers and regular containers. ([#91469](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91469), [@rata](https://github.com/rata))...

* rkt version 1.23.0+

    * known issues with the rkt runtime are [listed in the Getting Started Guide](https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/rkt/notes/)

* etcd version 3.0.17

* Go version: 1.8.3. [Link to announcement](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kubernetes-dev/0XRRz6UhhTM/YODWVnuDBQAJ)

     * Dynamic Configuration (ConfigMap API in the core API group) enables application
configuration to be stored as a Kubernetes API object and pulled dynamically on
container startup, as an alternative to baking in command-line flags when a
container is built.
     * Turnkey Deployments (Deployment API (Beta) in the Extensions API group)
automate deployment and rolling updates of applications, specified

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kubelet`:

  * `api-servers` - add apiserver addresses to the kubeconfig file instead.

  Don't use these flags. Using deprecated flags causes the kubelet to print a warning. Using a removed flag causes the kubelet to abort the startup.

*   Kubelet no longer removes default labels from Node API objects on startup ([#54073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54073),[ @liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
*   The overlay2 container disk metrics for Docker and CRI-O now work properly. ([#54827](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54827),[ @dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

            throw new RuntimeException("Samba container is not running");
        }

        Exception lastException = null;
        // Increased timeout to 90 seconds to allow for container startup and Samba initialization
        for (int attempt = 0; attempt < 90; attempt++) {
            try {
                SmbFile testFile = new SmbFile(baseUrl + "shared/", context);

- Fixed a race condition on API server startup ensuring previously created webhook configurations are effective before the first write request is admitted. ([#95783](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95783), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG API Machinery]