* Bug fixes

    * Fix some false negatives in detection of meaningful conflicts during strategic merge patch with maps and lists. ([#43469](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43469), [@enisoc](https://github.com/enisoc))

### OpenStack

In this cycle, SIG OpenStack focused on configuration simplification through smarter defaults and the use of auto-detection wherever feasible (Block Storage API versions, Security Groups) as well as updating API support, including:

*   Block Storage (Cinder) V3 is now supported.

keys if they already exist in the directory specified in the `--cert-dir` option. ([#76390](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76390), [@rojkov](https://github.com/rojkov))
- kubeadm now implements CRI detection for Windows worker nodes ([#78053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78053), [@ksubrmnn](https://github.com/ksubrmnn))

- Kubeadm: avoid detection of the container runtime for commands that do not need it ([#97625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97625), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

### SIG-autoscaling

SIG Autoscaling focused on improving the Horizontal Pod Autoscaling API and algorithm:
- We released autoscaling/v2beta2, which cleans up and unifies the API
- We improved readiness detection and smoothing to work well in a larger variety or use cases

### SIG-Azure

Sig Azure was focused on two primary new alpha features:
- Adding Azure Availability Zones support to cloud provider.

- Fix detection of image filesystem, disk metrics for devicemapper, detection of OOM Kills on 5.0+ linux kernels. ([#92919](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92919), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation...

* Fix broken detection of non-root image user ID ([#78261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78261), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))

* Fix broken detection of non-root image user ID ([#78261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78261), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))

- Revert "fix: handle socket file detection on Windows" ([#127100](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127100), [@jsturtevant](https://github.com/jsturtevant)) [SIG Node]

      - [Affected Versions](#affected-versions)
    - [How do I mitigate this vulnerability?](#how-do-i-mitigate-this-vulnerability)
      - [Fixed Versions](#fixed-versions)
    - [Detection](#detection)
      - [Additional Details](#additional-details)
      - [Acknowledgements](#acknowledgements)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-12)
    - [API Change](#api-change-3)
    - [Feature](#feature-11)