- Changed metadata management for Pods to populate `.metadata.generation` on writes. New pods will have a `metadata.generation` of 1; updates to mutable fields in the Pod `.spec` will result in `metadata.generation` being incremented by 1. ([#130181](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130181), [@natasha41575](https://github.com/natasha41575)) [SIG...

### Other notable changes

* Ensure status is not changed during an update of PV, PVC, HPA objects ([#24924](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24924), [@mqliang](https://github.com/mqliang))
* GCI: Add two GCI specific metadata pairs ([#25105](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25105), [@andyzheng0831](https://github.com/andyzheng0831))

    }

    /**
     * Upload character mapping file for the specified dictionary.
     *
     * @param dictId identifier of the dictionary to upload mapping for
     * @param form upload form containing the file and metadata
     * @return JSON response indicating the API result status
     */
    // PUT /api/admin/dict/mapping/upload/{dictId}
    @Execute

import org.opensearch.search.sort.SortBuilder;

/**
 * Context object that holds query-related information and state during search processing.
 * Contains the query string, query builder, sort criteria, and various metadata.
 */
public class QueryContext {

    /** Prefix for queries that search only in URL fields. */
    protected static final String ALLINURL_FIELD_PREFIX = "allinurl:";

controller & Replicaset**: the DELETE request of a replication controller or a replicaset becomes asynchronous by default. The object will continue to exist in the key-value store for some time. The API server will set its metadata.deletionTimestamp, add the "orphan" finalizer to its metadata.finalizers. The object will be deleted from the key-value store after the garbage collector orphans its dependents. Please refer to this [user-guide](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/garbage-collector/) for more...

     *
     * @param form the form containing the web authentication data
     * @return an optional WebAuthentication entity with updated metadata
     */
    public static OptionalEntity<WebAuthentication> getWebAuthentication(final CreateForm form) {
        final SystemHelper systemHelper = ComponentUtil.getSystemHelper();

     * Also processes permissions and virtual hosts from form fields.
     *
     * @param form the form containing the web config data
     * @return an optional WebConfig entity with updated metadata
     */
    public static OptionalEntity<WebConfig> getWebConfig(final CreateForm form) {
        final SystemHelper systemHelper = ComponentUtil.getSystemHelper();
        final String username = systemHelper.getUsername();

  var exception: IOException? = null
  val files =
    try {
      list(directory)
    } catch (fnfe: FileNotFoundException) {
      return
    }
  for (file in files) {
    try {
      if (metadata(file).isDirectory) {
        deleteContents(file)
      }

      delete(file)
    } catch (ioe: IOException) {
      if (exception == null) {
        exception = ioe
      }
    }
  }

* GCP: allow a master to not include a metadata concealment firewall rule (if it's not running the metadata proxy). ([#58104](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58104), [@ihmccreery](https://github.com/ihmccreery))

- Fix counting error in service/nodeport/loadbalancer quota check ([#97829](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97829), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG API Machinery and Network]
- Fix: azure file latency issue for metadata-heavy workloads ([#97082](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97082), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]