- Kubeadm: fix a bug where file copy(backup) could not be executed correctly on Windows platform during upgrade ([#117861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117861), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* fix detach azure disk back off issue which has too big lock in failure retry condition ([#76573](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76573), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Ensure the backend pools are set correctly for Azure SLB with multiple backend pools (e.g. outbound rules) ([#76691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76691), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* The behavior of some watch calls to the server when filtering on fields was incorrect.  If watching objects with a filter, when an update was made that no longer matched the filter a DELETE event was correctly sent.  However, the object that was returned by that delete was not the (correct) version before the update, but instead, the newer version.  That meant the new object was not matched by the filter.  This was a regression from behavior between cached watches on the server side and uncached...

- Fix kubectl printer to correctly handle timestamps of events emitted using events.k8s.io API ([#90227](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90227), [@gosoon](https://github.com/gosoon)) [SIG CLI]

- The OwnerReferencesPermissionEnforcement admission plugin now checks authorization for the correct scope (namespaced or cluster-scoped) of the owner resource type. Previously, it always checked permissions at the same scope as the child resource. ([#70389](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70389), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

- Revised scheduling behavior to correctly handle nominated node changes. Trigger rescheduling of pods 
if necessary when pods with nominated node names got deleted or nominated on a different node. ([#129058](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129058), [@dom4ha](https://github.com/dom4ha)) [SIG Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

  - [Known Issues](#known-issues)
    - [CPU and Memory manager are not working correctly for Guaranteed Pods with multiple containers](#cpu-and-memory-manager-are-not-working-correctly-for-guaranteed-pods-with-multiple-containers)

- Fixed bug that caused cAdvisor to incorrectly detect single-socket multi-NUMA topology. ([#99207](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99207), [@iwankgb](https://github.com/iwankgb)) [SIG Node]

- Fixed a storage bug around multipath. iSCSI and Fibre Channel devices attached to nodes via multipath now resolve correctly if partitioned. ([#129183](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129183), [@RomanBednar](https://github.com/RomanBednar)) [SIG Storage]

* Azure VMSS: support VM names...