* Bug fixes

    * Fix some false negatives in detection of meaningful conflicts during strategic merge patch with maps and lists. ([#43469](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43469), [@enisoc](https://github.com/enisoc))

* Use separate client for leader election in scheduler to avoid starving leader election by regular scheduler operations. ([#53793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53793), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

      - [Affected Versions](#affected-versions)
    - [How do I mitigate this vulnerability?](#how-do-i-mitigate-this-vulnerability)
      - [Fixed Versions](#fixed-versions)
    - [Detection](#detection)
      - [Additional Details](#additional-details)
      - [Acknowledgements](#acknowledgements)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-2)
    - [Bug or Regression](#bug-or-regression-2)

keys if they already exist in the directory specified in the `--cert-dir` option. ([#76390](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76390), [@rojkov](https://github.com/rojkov))
- kubeadm now implements CRI detection for Windows worker nodes ([#78053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78053), [@ksubrmnn](https://github.com/ksubrmnn))

- Kubeadm: avoid detection of the container runtime for commands that do not need it ([#97625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97625), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* Fix some false negatives in detection of meaningful conflicts during strategic merge patch with maps and lists. ([#43469](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43469), [@enisoc](https://github.com/enisoc))

### SIG-autoscaling

SIG Autoscaling focused on improving the Horizontal Pod Autoscaling API and algorithm:
- We released autoscaling/v2beta2, which cleans up and unifies the API
- We improved readiness detection and smoothing to work well in a larger variety or use cases

### SIG-Azure

Sig Azure was focused on two primary new alpha features:
- Adding Azure Availability Zones support to cloud provider.

- Kubeadm: fix a bug where the static pod changes detection logic is inconsistent with kubelet ([#118069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118069), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Fix detection of image filesystem, disk metrics for devicemapper, detection of OOM Kills on 5.0+ linux kernels. ([#92919](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92919), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation...

* Fix broken detection of non-root image user ID ([#78261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78261), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))