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:

  - DaemonSet pods now make use of scheduling features that require kubelets to be at 1.11 or above. Ensure all kubelets in the cluster are at 1.11 or above before upgrading kube-controller-manager to 1.13.

  
  vSphere releases less than 67u3 are deprecated as of v1.21. Please consider upgrading vSphere to 67u3 or above. vSphere CSI Driver requires minimum vSphere 67u3.
  
  VM Hardware version less than 15 is deprecated as of v1.21. Please consider upgrading the Node VM Hardware version to 15 or above. vSphere CSI Driver recommends Node VM's Hardware version set to at least vmx-15.
  

* Taint
  * The `taint` command will not function in a skewed 1.5 / 1.6 environment - client and server versions must match (See Action required section above)
  * Change taints/tolerations to api fields ([#38957](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38957), [@aveshagarwal](https://github.com/aveshagarwal))

  - AzureDiskLimits
  - CinderLimits
  - EBSLimits
  - GCEPDLimits
  
  The NodeVolumeLimits plugin can handle the same functionality as the above plugins since the above volume types are migrated to CSI.
  Please remove those plugins and replace them with the NodeVolumeLimits plugin if you explicitly use those plugins in the scheduler config.

- kubelet: Fix - the volume manager didn't check the device mount state in the actual state of the world before marking the volume as detached. It may cause a pod to be stuck in the Terminating state due to the above issue when it was deleted. ([#128219](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128219), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

- VSphere releases less than 7.0u2 are deprecated as of v1.24. Please consider upgrading vSphere to 7.0u2 or above. vSphere CSI Driver requires minimum vSphere 7.0u2.

  General Support for vSphere 6.7 will end on October 15, 2022. vSphere 6.7 Update 3 is deprecated in Kubernetes v1.24.  Customers are recommended to upgrade vSphere (both ESXi and vCenter) to 7.0u2 or above.  vSphere CSI Driver 2.2.3 and higher supports CSI Migration.

* Fix in vSphere Cloud Provider to handle upgrades from kubernetes version less than v1.9.4 to v1.9.4 and above. ([#62919](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62919), [@abrarshivani](https://github.com/abrarshivani))

* Fixed in vSphere Cloud Provider to handle upgrades from kubernetes version less than v1.9.4 to v1.9.4 and above. ([#62919](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62919), [@abrarshivani](https://github.com/abrarshivani))

    * + to use:
    * A new service spec field `Service.Spec.IPFamily` has been added. The default of this field is family of (first service cidr in --service-cluster-ip-range flag). The value is defaulted as described above  once the feature gate is turned on. Here are the possible values for this field: