- A new option cloudConfigType has been added to the cloud-config file. Supported values are: `file`, `secret` and `merge` (`merge` is the default value).
    - To allow Azure cloud provider to read secrets, the [RBAC rules](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78242) should be configured.

#### CLI

- Kubernetes api-server now merges selectors built from matchLabelKeys into the labelSelector of topologySpreadConstraints, 

   * iterate over keys in their enum definition order, not encounter order.
   *
   * <p>If the mapped keys contain duplicates, the values are merged using the specified merging
   * function.
   *
   * @since 21.0
   */
  public static <T extends @Nullable Object, K extends Enum<K>, V>
      Collector<T, ?, ImmutableMap<K, V>> toImmutableEnumMap(

 * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
 * specific language governing permissions and limitations
 * under the License.
 */

/**
 * POM merger.
 */

- kube-proxy metrics are now marked as with the ALPHA stability level. ([#81626](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81626), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

  * Strategic Merge Patch

    * Reference docs now display the patch type and patch merge key used by `kubectl apply` to merge and identify unique elements in arrays.

      * `kubectl edit` and `kubectl apply` will keep the ordering of elements in merged lists ([#45980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45980), [@mengqiy](https://github.com/mengqiy))

 */
@Deprecated(since = "4.0.0")
public interface DependencyManagementInjector {

    /**
     * Merges default values from the dependency management section of the given model into itself.
     *
     * @param model The model into which to merge the values specified by its dependency management sections, must not
     *            be <code>null</code>.

 */
@Deprecated(since = "4.0.0")
public interface PluginManagementInjector {

    /**
     * Merges default values from the plugin management section of the given model into itself.
     *
     * @param model The model into which to merge the values specified by its plugin management section, must not be
     *            <code>null</code>.

    }

    /**
     * Merges this result with another result, combining the sets of POMs.
     * This allows proper aggregation of results from multiple strategies without double-counting.
     */
    public UpgradeResult merge(UpgradeResult other) {
        Set<Path> mergedProcessed = new HashSet<>(this.processedPoms);

@Deprecated(since = "4.0.0")
public class DefaultDependencyManagementInjector implements DependencyManagementInjector {

    private ManagementModelMerger merger = new ManagementModelMerger();

    @Override
    public void injectManagement(Model model, ModelBuildingRequest request, ModelProblemCollector problems) {
        merger.mergeManagedDependencies(model);
    }

    /**
     * ManagementModelMerger
     */