* 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))

* 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))

- 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))

### 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/...

   ([#122530](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122530), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

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