### 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]

* Update kube-dns to 1.14.2. ([#45684](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45684), [@bowei](https://github.com/bowei))
* Fix log spam due to unnecessary status update when node is deleted. ([#45923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45923), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

- `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))

  * iscsi storage plugin: Fix dangling session when using multiple target portal addresses. ([#46239](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46239), [@mtanino](https://github.com/mtanino))


  * Fix log spam due to unnecessary status update when node is deleted. ([#45923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45923), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

- 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]

  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

- Fix handling of aws-load-balancer-security-groups annotation. Security-Groups assigned with this annotation are no longer modified by kubernetes which is the expected behaviour of most users. Also no unnecessary Security-Groups are created anymore if this annotation is used. ([#88691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88691), [@Elias481](https://github.com/Elias481)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* ✏️ Fix typo in `docs/en/docs/reference/index.md`. PR [#10467](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/10467) by [@tarsil](https://github.com/tarsil).
* 🔥 Remove unnecessary duplicated docstrings. PR [#10484](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/10484) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).

### Internal

### 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]

* UDP connections now support graceful termination in IPVS mode ([#71515](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71515), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))
* Fix a potential bug that scheduler preempts unnecessary pods. ([#70898](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70898), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))