- Azure cloud provider can now be configured by Kubernetes secrets and a new option `cloudConfigType` has been introduced. Candidate values are `file`, `secret` or `merge` (default is `merge`). Note that the secret is a serialized version of `azure.json` file with key cloud-config. And the secret name is azure-cloud-provider in kube-system namespace. ([#78242](https://github....

* New Azure cloud provider option 'cloudProviderBackoffMode' has been added to reduce Azure API retries. Candidate values are: ([#70866](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70866), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
   * default (or empty string): keep same with before.

- kubelet: fixed an issue mounting CSI volumes on Windows nodes in 1.32.0 release candidates. ([#129083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129083) [liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery, architecture, auth, cli, cloud-provider, cluster-lifecycle, instrumentation,network,node, release, storage, windows ]

- External facing API podresources is now available under k8s.io/kubelet/pkg/apis/ ([#92632](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92632), [@RenaudWasTaken](https://github.com/RenaudWasTaken)) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Fewer candidates are enumerated for preemption to improve performance in large clusters. ([#94814](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94814), [@adtac](https://github.com/adtac))