- Scheduling failures due to no nodes available are now reported as unschedulable under ```schedule_attempts_total``` metric. ([#90989](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90989), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Fix invalid VMSS updates due to incorrect cache ([#89002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89002), [@ArchangelSDY](https://github.com/ArchangelSDY)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- github.com/go-toolsmith/pkgload: v1.0.0
- github.com/go-toolsmith/strparse: v1.0.0
- github.com/go-toolsmith/typep: v1.0.0
- github.com/gobwas/glob: v0.2.3
- github.com/golangci/check: cfe4005
- github.com/golangci/dupl: 3e9179a
- github.com/golangci/errcheck: ef45e06
- github.com/golangci/go-misc: 927a3d8
- github.com/golangci/go-tools: e32c541
- github.com/golangci/goconst: 041c5f2
- github.com/golangci/gocyclo: 2becd97

  optional bool ready = 4;

  // RestartCount holds the number of times the container has been restarted.
  // Kubelet makes an effort to always increment the value, but there
  // are cases when the state may be lost due to node restarts and then the value
  // may be reset to 0. The value is never negative.
  optional int32 restartCount = 5;

  // Image is the name of container image that the container is running.

* Bump ip-masq-agent version to v2.3.0 to fix vulnerabilities ([#77834](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77834), [@anfernee](https://github.com/anfernee))
* fix pod stuck issue due to corrupt mnt point in flexvol plugin, call Unmount if PathExists returns any error ([#75234](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75234), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* GCE: provide an option to disable docker's live-restore on COS/ubuntu ([#55260](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55260), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))
* Fix kube-proxy hang due to panic when requesting a closed healthcheck. ([#46450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46450), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

* fix pod stuck issue due to corrupt mnt point in flexvol plugin, call Unmount if PathExists returns any error ([#75234](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75234), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

### Bug or Regression

- Fixed a bug where init containers may fail to start due to a temporary container runtime failure. ([#127213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127213), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Node]

## **Deprecations**

### Cluster provisioning scripts
* cluster/ubuntu: Removed due to [deprecation](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/cluster#cluster-configuration) and lack of maintenance. ([#44344](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44344), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))