* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))
* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

* Fix panic in ControllerManager on GCE when it has a problem with creating external loadbalancer healthcheck ([#52646](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52646), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))

  cause DNS problems when DNS pods were restarted. ([#127808](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127808), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network]
- Kubeadm: fix wrong member list reported when removing an etcd member ([#127962](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127962), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* Include the list of security groups when failing with the errors that more then one is tagged ([#58874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58874), [@sorenmat](https://github.com/sorenmat))
* Allow "required" to be used at the CRD OpenAPI validation schema when the /status subresource is enabled. ([#63533](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63533), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

  To request this behavior, your client software must enable the `WatchListClient` client-go feature gate. Additionally, streaming is only available if supported by the cluster; the API server that you connect to must also support streaming.

- kubeadm: now explicitly waits for `etcd` to have grown when joining a new control plane ([#72984](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72984), [@ereslibre](https://github.com/ereslibre))
- kubeadm: now pulls images when joining a new control plane instance ([#72870](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72870), [@MalloZup](https://github.com/MalloZup))

- Fix: statle smb mount issue when smb file share is deleted and then unmount ([#121851](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121851), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage]
- Fixed a regression since 1.27.0 in scheduler framework when running score plugins. 
  The `skippedScorePlugins` number might be greater than `enabledScorePlugins`, 

* Updated kubernetes-worker to request new security tokens when the aws cloud provider changes the registered node name. ([#59730](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59730), [@hyperbolic2346](https://github.com/hyperbolic2346))

- When configuring a JWT authenticator:
  

- Fixed panic when accessing CustomResources of a CRD with `x-kubernetes-int-or-string`. ([#83787](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83787), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))