* Deprecate auto detecting cloud providers in kubelet. Auto detecting cloud providers go against the initiative for out-of-tree cloud providers as we'll now depend on cAdvisor integrations with cloud providers instead of the core repo. In the near future, `--cloud-provider` for kubelet will either be an empty string or `external`.  ([#51312](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51312), [@and...

* Deprecate auto detecting cloud providers in kubelet. Auto detecting cloud providers go against the initiative for out-of-tree cloud providers as we'll now depend on cAdvisor integrations with cloud providers instead of the core repo. In the near future, `--cloud-provider` for kubelet will either be an empty string or `external`.  ([#51312](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51312), [@and...

* vSphere cloud provider: Remove the dependency of login information on worker nodes for vsphere cloud provider. ([#43545](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43545), [@luomiao](https://github.com/luomiao))

- Updated cri-tools to v1.34.0. ([#133636](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133636), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Updated etcd to v3.6.5. ([#134251](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134251), [@joshjms](https://github.com/joshjms)) [SIG API Machinery, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Etcd and Testing]

- Fix: consolidate logs for instance not found error (#105364, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105404, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: ignore the case when updating Azure tags (#104687, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* The AWS credential provider can now obtain ECR credentials even without the AWS cloud provider or being on an EC2 instance. Additionally, AWS credential provider caching has been improved to honor the ECR credential timeout. ([#75587](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75587), [@tiffanyfay](https://github.com/tiffanyfay))

### SIG Cloud Provider

- Fix: Provide IPv6 support for internal load balancer ([#103794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103794), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: cleanup outdated routes ([#102935](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102935), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Updated the `v1` credential provider configuration to include the `tokenAttributes.cacheType` field. This field is required and must be set to either `ServiceAccount` or `Token` when configuring a provider that uses a service account to fetch registry credentials. ([#132617](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132617),...

- Fix: set nil cache entry based on old cache ([#87592](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87592), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase)) [SIG Cloud Provider]