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- Ensure all vSphere nodes are are tracked by volume attach-detach controller ([#96689](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96689), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

- Kubelet config file will be backed up to `/etc/kubernetes/tmp/` folder with `kubeadm-kubelet-config` append with a random suffix as the filename ([#114695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114695), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

In addition, support for NVMe disks has been added to Kubernetes, and a service of type LoadBalancer can now be backed with an NLB instead of an ELB (alpha).

### Azure

SIG Azure worked on improvements in the cloud provider, including significant work on the Azure Load Balancer implementation.

### Cluster Lifecycle

* APIserver backed by etcdv3 exports metric shows number of resources per kind. ([#59757](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59757), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))

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- Updated apiserver metric `request_filter_duration_seconds` to include a 10s, 15s and 30s bucket.
Updated apiserver metric `request_wait_duration_seconds` to include a 15s bucket. ([#118945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118945), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

- Kubeadm: get k8s CI version markers from k8s infra bucket ([#98836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98836), [@hasheddan](https://github.com/hasheddan)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Release]