- [Dashboard](#dashboard)
    - [DNS](#dns)
    - [DNS Autoscaler](#dns-autoscaler)
    - [Cluster Autoscaler](#cluster-autoscaler-1)
    - [Cluster Load Balancing](#cluster-load-balancing)
    - [etcd Empty Dir Cleanup](#etcd-empty-dir-cleanup)
    - [Fluentd](#fluentd)
    - [Heapster](#heapster)
    - [Registry](#registry)
  - [External Dependency Version Information](#external-dependency-version-information)

- Fix paging issues when Azure API returns empty values with non-empty nextLink ([#96211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96211), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### Other notable changes

* Add fallbacks to ARM API when getting empty node IP from Azure IMDS ([#69077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69077), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Fixed API server panic during concurrent GET or LIST requests with non-empty `resourceVersion`. ([#65092](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65092), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in reconcileBackendPools ([#103997](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103997), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: return empty VMAS name if using standalone VM ([#103470](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103470), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* Default resourceGroup should be used when the value of annotation azure-load-balancer-resource-group is an empty string. ([#79514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79514), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- `Kubectl set resources` will no longer return an error if passed an empty change for a resource. `kubectl set subject` will no longer return an error if passed an empty change for a resource. ([#85490](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85490), [@sallyom](https://github.com/sallyom)) [SIG CLI]

- Kube-apiserver: bugfix DeleteCollection API fails if request body is non-empty ([#113967](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113967), [@sxllwx](https://github.com/sxllwx)) [SIG API Machinery]

- The synthetic "Bookmark" event for the watch stream requests will now include a new annotation: `kubernetes.io/initial-events-list-blueprint`. THe annotation contains an empty, versioned list that is encoded in the requested format (such as protobuf, JSON, or CBOR), then base64-encoded and stored as a string. ([#127587](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127587), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG...

- OIDC authentication will now fail if the username asserted based on a CEL expression config is the empty string.  Previously the request would be authenticated with the username set to the empty string. ([#123568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123568), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))