- Fixes a bug that could result in the EndpointSlice controller unnecessarily updating EndpointSlices associated with a Service that had Topology Aware Hints enabled. ([#105267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105267), [@llhuii](https://github.com/llhuii))

  stop using `--node-ip`. (In particular, this fixes the problem where people who
  were unnecessarily using `--node-ip` with an external cloud provider in 1.23,
  and then running into problems with 1.24, could not fix the problem by just
  removing the unnecessary `--node-ip` from the kubelet arguments, because

* Use Cluster Autoscaler 0.5.1, which fixes an issue in Cluster Autoscaler 0.5 where the cluster may be scaled up unnecessarily. Also the status of Cluster Autoscaler is now exposed in kube-system/cluster-autoscaler-status config map. ([#43745](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43745), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))

* Use Cluster Autoscaler 0.5.1, which fixes an issue in Cluster Autoscaler 0.5 where the cluster may be scaled up unnecessarily. Also the status of Cluster Autoscaler is now exposed in kube-system/cluster-autoscaler-status config map. ([#43745](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43745), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))

    * A sample cloud provider configure is: '{"vmType": "vmss", "useInstanceMetadata": true}'.
* Volumes specified in a pod but not used in it are no longer unnecessarily formatted, mounted and reported in `node.status.volumesInUse`. ([#81163](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81163), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

Nevertheless, as this would mean waiting for the response to travel through the network while unnecessarily holding a resource in a dependency with yield (for example a database connection), this was changed in FastAPI 0.106.0.

### Bug or Regression

- Avoid GCE API calls when initializing GCE CloudProvider for Kubelets.
  Avoid unnecessary GCE API calls when adding IP alises or reflecting them in Node object in GCE cloud provider. ([#96863](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96863), [@tosi3k](https://github.com/tosi3k)) [SIG Apps, Cloud Provider and Network]

- `kubeadm reset` now cleans up custom etcd data path ([#70003](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70003), [@yagonobre](https://github.com/yagonobre))
- kubeadm: Fixed unnecessary upgrades caused by undefined order of Volumes and VolumeMounts in manifests ([#70027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70027), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))

- Update the system-validators library to v1.8.0 ([#114060](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114060), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]
- [aws] Fixed a bug which reduces the number of unnecessary calls to STS in the event of assume role failures in the legacy cloud provider ([#110706](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110706), [@prateekgogia](https://github.com/prateekgogia)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### Bug or Regression

- Avoid GCE API calls when initializing GCE CloudProvider for Kubelets.
  Avoid unnecessary GCE API calls when adding IP alises or reflecting them in Node object in GCE cloud provider. ([#96864](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96864), [@tosi3k](https://github.com/tosi3k)) [SIG Apps, Cloud Provider and Network]