* Fixed a bug which could prevent a provider ID from ever being set for node if an error occurred determining the provider ID when the node was added. ([#87043](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87043), [@zjs](https://github.com/zjs))

### Kubernetes API Reference Documentation

* kubeadm: reset: use crictl to reset containers ([#54721](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54721), [@runcom](https://github.com/runcom))

* Scheduler should be able to read from config file if configmap is not present. ([#59386](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59386), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla))

- During device plugin allocation, resources requested by the pod can only be allocated if the device plugin has registered itself to kubelet AND healthy devices are present on the node to be allocated. If these conditions are not sattsfied, the pod would fail with `UnexpectedAdmissionError` error. ([#116376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116376), [@swatisehgal](https://github.com/swatisehgal)) [SIG Node...

- Fixed kubelet startup getting stuck with `NewVolumeManagerReconstruction` feature enabled and a CSI volume present in /var/lib/kubelet/pods. ([#117804](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117804), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Node and Storage]

* hpa: Prevent scaling below MinReplicas if desiredReplicas is zero ([#48997](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48997), [@johanneswuerbach](https://github.com/johanneswuerbach))
* Kubelet CRI: move seccomp from annotations to security context. ([#46332](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46332), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Fix a race condition in which kubeadm only waits for the kubelets kubeconfig file when it has performed the TLS bootstrap, but wasn't waiting for certificates to be present in the filesystem ([#72030](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72030), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre))

- Prevent unnecessary Endpoints and EndpointSlice updates caused by Pod ResourceVersion change ([#108078](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108078), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- During device plugin allocation, resources requested by the pod can only be allocated if the device plugin has registered itself to kubelet AND healthy devices are present on the node to be allocated. If these conditions are not sattsfied, the pod would fail with `UnexpectedAdmissionError` error. ([#117738](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117738), [@swatisehgal](https://github.com/swatisehgal)) [SIG Node...