* Node-Problem-Detector configuration is now decoupled from the Kubernetes release on GKE/GCE. ([#73288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73288), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))
* Restores --username and --password flags to kubectl ([#75451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75451), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* fix: detach azure disk issue using dangling error ([#81266](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81266), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* support cross resource group for azure file ([#68117](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68117), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Use real device path in isDeviceOpen check on umount ([#68674](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68674), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

* Updates defaultbackend to 1.5 ([#69381](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69381), [@bowei](https://github.com/bowei))
* Immediately close the other side of the connection when proxying. ([#67288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67288), [@MHBauer](https://github.com/MHBauer))
* Disable proxy to loopback and linklocal ([#71980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71980), [@micahhausler](https://github.com/micahhausler))

- github.com/coreos/go-systemd/v22: [v22.1.0 → v22.3.1](https://github.com/coreos/go-systemd/v22/compare/v22.1.0...v22.3.1)
- github.com/godbus/dbus/v5: [v5.0.3 → v5.0.4](https://github.com/godbus/dbus/v5/compare/v5.0.3...v5.0.4)
- github.com/google/go-cmp: [v0.5.2 → v0.5.4](https://github.com/google/go-cmp/compare/v0.5.2...v0.5.4)
- github.com/kr/pretty: [v0.2.0 → v0.2.1](https://github.com/kr/pretty/compare/v0.2.0...v0.2.1)

- cloud.google.com/go: v0.97.0 → v0.110.0
- github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-proto: [v0.2.1 → v0.4.1](https://github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-proto/compare/v0.2.1...v0.4.1)
- github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2: [v2.1.2 → v2.2.0](https://github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2/compare/v2.1.2...v2.2.0)
- github.com/cncf/udpa/go: [04548b0 → c52dc94](https://github.com/cncf/udpa/go/compare/04548b0...c52dc94)

* fix detach azure disk back off issue which has too big lock in failure retry condition ([#76573](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76573), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* specify azure file share name in azure file plugin ([#76988](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76988), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* Add --no-negcache flag to kube-dns to prevent caching of NXDOMAIN responses. ([#66036](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66036), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj))

- Fix azure disk data loss issue on Windows when unmount disk ([#95456](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95456), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

- Restore --verify-only function in code generation wrappers. ([#123261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123261), [@skitt](https://github.com/skitt)) [SIG API Machinery]