* fix: retry detach azure disk issue ([#78700](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78700), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
    * try to only update vm if detach a non-existing disk when got <200, error> after detach disk operation

- Fix azure disk attach failure for disk size bigger than 4TB ([#95463](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95463), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

    - [kube-controller-manager](#kube-controller-manager)
    - [kube-dns](#kube-dns)
    - [kube-proxy](#kube-proxy)
    - [Scheduler](#scheduler)
    - [Volume Plugins](#volume-plugins)
      - [Azure Disk](#azure-disk)
      - [GlusterFS](#glusterfs)
      - [Photon](#photon)
      - [rbd](#rbd)
      - [vSphere](#vsphere-1)
      - [Other Notable Changes](#other-notable-changes-15)

*   Fixed an issue with Azure disk mount failures on CoreOS and some other distros ([#54334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54334),[ @andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
*   GRS, RAGRS storage account types are now supported for Azure disks. ([#55931](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55931),[ @andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Fix: GetLabelsForVolume panic issue for azure disk PV ([#92166](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92166), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: use force detach for azure disk ([#91948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91948), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Fix azure disk attach failure for disk size bigger than 4TB ([#95463](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95463), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

	    * Note: this fixes some issues with the previous implementation of metrics for disks:

	      * Time duration tracked was of the initial API call, not the entire operation.

	      * Metrics label tuple would have resulted in many independent histograms stored, one for each disk. (Did not aggregate well).

- Fix azure disk attach failure for disk size bigger than 4TB ([#95463](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95463), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

    * Fixes volume detach from shutdown nodes.
* remove retry operation on attach/detach  azure disk ([#70568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70568), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* fix azure disk attachment error on Linux ([#70002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70002), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* Block device support has been added for azure disk. ([#63841](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63841), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Azure VM names can now contain the underscore (`_`) character ([#63526](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63526), [@djsly](https://github.com/djsly))
* Azure disks now support external resource groups.