- Fix: azure disk resize error if source does not exist ([#93011](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93011), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### Azure

* Set node external IP for azure node when disabling UseInstanceMetadata. ([#60959](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60959), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Changed default azure file/dir mode to 0755. ([#56551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56551), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Fix: add azure disk migration support for CSINode ([#88014](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88014), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fix: add remediation in azure disk attach/detach ([#88444](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88444), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### SIG-Azure

Sig Azure was focused on two primary new alpha features:
- Adding Azure Availability Zones support to cloud provider.
- Supporting Cross RG resources (disks, Azure File and node [Experimental]

Besides the above new features, support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) and Cluster-Autoscaler is now stable and considered GA:

* fix get azure accounts timeout issue when there is no out-bound IP ([#74191](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74191), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* fix issue: fail to detach azure disk when there is server side error ([#74398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74398), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* fix race condition when attach/delete azure disk in same time ([#84917](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84917), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* fix azure load balancer update dns label issue ([#85329](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85329), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))

- The cloud config for Azure cloud provider can now be initialized from Kubernetes secret azure-cloud-provider in kube-system namespace
    - the secret is a serialized version of `azure.json` file with key cloud-config. And the secret name is azure-cloud-provider.

- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/validation: [v0.1.0](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/validation/tree/v0.1.0)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest: [v0.9.0](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/tree/v0.9.0)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/logger: [v0.1.0](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/logger/tree/v0.1.0)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/tracing: [v0.5.0](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/tracing/tree/v0.5.0)

- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/date: [v0.2.0 → v0.3.0](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/compare/autorest/date/v0.2.0...autorest/date/v0.3.0)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/mocks: [v0.3.0 → v0.4.0](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/compare/autorest/mocks/v0.3.0...autorest/mocks/v0.4.0)

### Changed
- github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go: [v43.0.0+incompatible → v55.0.0+incompatible](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/compare/v43.0.0...v55.0.0)
- github.com/Azure/go-ansiterm: [d6e3b33 → d185dfc](https://github.com/Azure/go-ansiterm/compare/d6e3b33...d185dfc)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal: [v0.9.5 → v0.9.13](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal/compare/v0.9.5...v0.9.13)