- This renames some coredns metrics, see https://github.com/coredns/coredns/blob/v1.11.0/plugin/forward/README.md#metrics. ([#129175](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129175), [@DamianSawicki](https://github.com/DamianSawicki)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- **Fault Tolerance**: Built-in retry mechanisms and error handling
- **Flexible Configuration**: XML-based dependency injection with LastaFlute DI
- **Extensible Architecture**: Plugin system for custom extractors, transformers, and clients
- **Rate Limiting**: Politeness policies and interval controllers
- **URL Filtering**: Regex-based inclusion/exclusion patterns

			},
			{
				Description: MetricDescription{
					Namespace: nodeMetricNamespace,
					Subsystem: iamSubsystem,
					Name:      "plugin_authn_service_last_succ_seconds",
					Help:      "When plugin authentication is configured, returns time (in seconds) since the last successful request to the service",
					Type:      gaugeMetric,
				},
				Value: pluginAuthNMetrics.LastReachableSecs,
			},
			{

                    .stream()
                    .collect(Collectors.joining(" "));
            return this;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Represents an API response for plugin information.
     */
    public static class ApiPluginResponse extends ApiResponse {
        /** The list of plugins. */
        protected List<Map<String, String>> plugins;

        /**

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codelibs/fess/,https://fess.codelibs.org/plugin/artifacts.yaml */
    String PLUGIN_REPOSITORIES = "plugin.repositories";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g.  */
    String PLUGIN_VERSION_FILTER = "plugin.version.filter";

    /** The key of the configuration. e.g. 1000 */

  - [stable] New volume plugin for the Quobyte Distributed File System ([docs](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/volumes/#quobyte)) ([kubernetes/features#80](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/80))

* Caching added to the OIDC client auth plugin to fix races and reduce the time kubectl commands using this plugin take by several seconds. ([#38167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38167), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

* LBaaS v2 Support for Openstack Cloud Provider Plugin ([#25987](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25987), [@dagnello](https://github.com/dagnello))
* GCI: add support for network plugin ([#27027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27027), [@andyzheng0831](https://github.com/andyzheng0831))

    - [Structured logging graduate to Beta](#structured-logging-graduate-to-beta)
    - [Simplified Multi-point plugin configuration for scheduler](#simplified-multi-point-plugin-configuration-for-scheduler)
    - [CSI Migration updates](#csi-migration-updates)
  - [Urgent Upgrade Notes](#urgent-upgrade-notes)

	// 3.1 Validate that the client from STS creds cannot upload any object as
	// it is denied by the plugin.
	c.mustNotUpload(ctx, s.getUserClient(c, cr.AccessKey, cr.SecretKey, ""), bucket)

	// Check that session policies do not apply - as policy enforcement is
	// delegated to plugin.
	{
		svcAK, svcSK := mustGenerateCredentials(c)

		// This policy does not allow listing objects.