- Fix handling of aws-load-balancer-security-groups annotation. Security-Groups assigned with this annotation are no longer modified by kubernetes which is the expected behaviour of most users. Also no unnecessary Security-Groups are created anymore if this annotation is used. ([#88689](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88689), [@Elias481](https://github.com/Elias481)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* fix the issue that default azure disk fsypte(ext4) does not work on Windows ([#62250](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62250), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Ensure expected load balancer is selected for Azure ([#62450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62450), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Fixing issue on Windows nodes where HostProcess containers may not be created as expected. ([#110965](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110965), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset)) [SIG Node and Windows]

  you want to set the equivalent of any of the `--iptables-xxx` options.)
  
  As this code is still very new, it has not been heavily optimized yet;
  while it is expected to _eventually_ have better performance than the
  iptables backend, very little performance testing has been done so far. ([#121046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121046), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

* The structure of the kubelet dropin in the kubeadm deb package has changed significantly. Instead of hard-coding the parameters for the kubelet in the dropin, a structured configuration file for the kubelet is used, and is expected to be present in `/var/lib/kubelet/config.yaml`. For runtime-detected, instance-specific configuration values, a environment file with dynamically-generated flags at `kubeadm init` or `kubeadm join` run time is used. Finally, if you want to override...

- Fix handling of aws-load-balancer-security-groups annotation. Security-Groups assigned with this annotation are no longer modified by kubernetes which is the expected behaviour of most users. Also no unnecessary Security-Groups are created anymore if this annotation is used. ([#88690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88690), [@Elias481](https://github.com/Elias481)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Fixes a bug where Services using finalizers may hold onto ClusterIP and/or NodePort allocated resources for longer than expected if the finalizer is removed using the status subresource ([#120655](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120655), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]

- Fix handling of aws-load-balancer-security-groups annotation. Security-Groups assigned with this annotation are no longer modified by kubernetes which is the expected behaviour of most users. Also no unnecessary Security-Groups are created anymore if this annotation is used. ([#83446](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83446), [@Elias481](https://github.com/Elias481)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Adds two new metrics to cronjobs, a histogram to track the time difference when a job is created and the expected time when it should be created, as well as a gauge for the missed schedules of a cronjob ([#99341](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99341), [@alaypatel07](https://github.com/alaypatel07))

- Fixes a bug where Services using finalizers may hold onto ClusterIP and/or NodePort allocated resources for longer than expected if the finalizer is removed using the status subresource ([#120656](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120656), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Testing]