Previous versions of the provider used the "kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration" annotation to store a copy of the configuration as part of the Kubernetes resource. This annotation was used for input diff computation in client-side apply mode. Specifically, input diffs were computed between the new inputs and the last-applied-configuration value from the previous live state. Using this annotation resulted in a large number of reported issues (30+) for the provider, and it will no longer be used.

14916d3 added logic to prune a map based on a target map. This logic is used to prune live state to match the previous inputs before performing an input diff computation. This avoids the need to store the last-applied-configuration.