SIG Node iterated on the ability to support more workloads with better performance and improved reliability.  Alpha features were improved around hardware accelerator support, device plugins enablement, and cpu pinning policies to enable us to graduate these features to beta in a future release.  In addition, a number of reliability and performance enhancements were made across the node to help operators in production.

### OpenStack

- Static pods were taking extra time to be restarted after being updated.  Static pods that are waiting to restart were not correctly counted in `kubelet_working_pods`. ([#116995](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116995), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node]

* update gophercloud/gophercloud dependency for reauthentication fixes ([#45545](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45545), [@stuart-warren](https://github.com/stuart-warren))
* fix sync loop health check with separating runtime errors ([#47124](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47124), [@andyxning](https://github.com/andyxning))

- Fixed a performance issue where pods weren't created/deleted in parallel for a StatefulSet with podManagementPolicy: Parallel. ([#119224](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119224), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska)) [SIG Apps]

- Fixed vSphere cloud provider not to skip detach volumes from nodes at k...