- Exposes and sets a default timeout for the SubjectAccessReview client for DelegatingAuthorizationOptions ([#96152](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96152), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

- DRA: scheduling pods is up to 16x faster, depending on the scenario. Scheduling throughput depends a lot on cluster utilization. It is higher for lightly loaded clusters with free resources and gets lower when the cluster utilization increases. ([#127277](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127277), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Architecture, Auth, Etcd, Instrumentation, Node, Scheduling and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes a race condition in the iptables mode of kube-proxy in 1.27 and later
  that could result in some updates getting lost (e.g., when a service gets a
  new endpoint, the rules for the new endpoint might not be added until
  much later). ([#122815](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122815), [@wedaly](https://github.com/wedaly)) [SIG Network]

- For statically provisioned PVs, if its volume source is CSI type or it has migrated annotation, when it's deleted, the PersisentVolume controller won't changes its phase to the Failed state. 
  

- Fixed a bug that caused a DaemonSet rolling update to hang when its pod gets stuck at terminating.  ([#77773](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77773), [@DaiHao](https://github.com/DaiHao))

- Ensure getPrimaryInterfaceID not panic when network interfaces for Azure VMSS are null ([#94355](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94355), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

group now allows providing the user uid. ([#49677](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49677), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

* After a kubelet rotates its client cert, it now closes its connections to the API server to force a handshake using the new cert. Previously, the kubelet could keep its existing connection open, even if the cert used for that connection was expired and rejected by the API server. ([#49899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49899), [...

- Exposes and sets a default timeout for the SubjectAccessReview client for DelegatingAuthorizationOptions ([#96153](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96153), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery and 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:

- Azure virtual machine scale sets (VMSS) allow you to create and manage identical load balanced VMs that automatically increase or decrease based on demand or a set schedule.

*   A new service annotation `service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-dns-label-name` now sets the Azure DNS label for a public IP address. ([#47849](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47849),[ @tomerf](https://github.com/tomerf))