- 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.

- Exposes and sets a default timeout for the SubjectAccessReview client for DelegatingAuthorizationOptions ([#95725](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95725), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

- 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]

* Adds a new `kubeadm config` command that lets users tell `kubeadm upgrade` what kubeadm configuration to use and lets users view the current state. ([#50980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50980), [@luxas](https://github.com/luxas))

  written as a defaulted config.' ([#124480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124480), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))
- .status.terminating field now gets tracked faster when active Pods are deleted, specifically when Job is failed, gets suspended or has too many active pods. ([#125175](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125175), [@dejanzele](https://github.com/dejanzele)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

## Changelog since v1.23.6

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- 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]

## Changelog since v1.15.3

### Other notable changes

* Restores compatibility with kubectl client-side validation when structural schemas are present in a CRD which sets spec.preserveUnknownFields=true ([#82666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82666), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

*   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))

- Fix a bug on the endpoints controller that does not reconcile the Endpoint object after this is truncated (it gets more than 1000 endpoints addresses) ([#127417](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127417), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]