* Fixed garbage collection hang ([#57503](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57503), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* GCE: Fixes ILB creation on automatic networks with manually created subnetworks. ([#57351](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57351), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

- Kubeadm no longer removes /etc/cni/net.d as it does not install it. Users should remove files from it manually or rely on the component that created them ([#83950](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83950), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

* Add masquerading rules by default to GCE/GKE ([#55178](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55178), [@dnardo](https://github.com/dnardo))
* Azure cloudprovider: Fix controller manager crash issue on a manually created k8s cluster. ([#53694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53694), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

### Other notable changes

  for actions against a CRI endpoint. The kubeadm deb/rpm packages will continue to install the `cri-tools`
  package for one more release, but in you must adapt your scripts to install `crictl` manually from
  https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/releases or a different location.
  
  The `kubeadm` package will stop depending on the `cri-tools` package in Kubernetes 1.32, which means that

* fix incorrect error info when creating an azure file PVC failed ([#56550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56550), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* GCE: Fixes ILB creation on automatic networks with manually created subnetworks. ([#57351](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57351), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

- AWS cloud provider supports auto-discovering subnets without any `kubernetes.io/cluster/<clusterName>` tags. It also supports additional service annotation `service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-subnets` to manually configure the subnets. ([#97431](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97431), [@kishorj](https://github.com/kishorj))

 - Intree volume plugin scaleIO support has been completely removed from Kubernetes. ([#101685](https://github.com/kubernetes/...

* GCE: Fixed ILB creation on automatic networks with manually created subnetworks. ([#57351](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57351), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

For example, a plugin that implements Score and Filter extensions can be simultaneously enabled for both.
This means entire plugins can be enabled and disabled without having to manually edit individual extension point settings.
These extension points can now be abstracted away due to their irrelevance for most users.

### CSI Migration updates