- Fix an issue with dropped audit logs, when truncating and batch backends enabled at the same time. ([#65823](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65823), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))
- DaemonSet: Fix bug- daemonset didn't create pod after node have enough resource ([#67337](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67337), [@linyouchong](https://github.com/linyouchong))

* Fix issue where masquerade rules are flushed in GCE k8s clusters. ([#56729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56729), [@dnardo](https://github.com/dnardo))
* kubelet: Fix bug where `runAsUser: MustRunAsNonRoot` strategy didn't reject a pod with a non-numeric `USER`. ([#56708](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56708), [@php-coder](https://github.com/php-coder))

- Fixed cleaning of CSI raw block volumes. ([#87978](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87978), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Storage]

- Fixed the following 
  -  AWS Cloud Provider attempts to delete LoadBalancer security group it didn’t provision

- The scheduling queue didn't notice any extenders' failures, it could miss some cluster events,
  and it could end up Pods rejected by Extenders stuck in unschedulable pod pool in 5min in the worst-case scenario.

* fix CreateVolume func: use search mode instead ([#54687](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54687), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* kubelet: fix bug where `runAsUser: MustRunAsNonRoot` strategy didn't reject a pod with a non-numeric `USER`. ([#56503](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56503), [@php-coder](https://github.com/php-coder))

- The scheduling queue didn't notice any extenders' failures, it could miss some cluster events,
  and it could end up Pods rejected by Extenders stuck in unschedulable pod pool in 5min in the worst-case scenario.

   ([#123273](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123273), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))...

SIG Windows focused on improving reliability for Windows and Kubernetes support

## New Features

- kubelet: When node lease feature is enabled, kubelet reports node status to api server only if there is some change or it didn't report over last report interval. ([#69753](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69753), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))

* Fixes issue where masquerade rules are flushed in GCE k8s clusters. ([#56728](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56728), [@dnardo](https://github.com/dnardo))
* kubelet: fix bug where `runAsUser: MustRunAsNonRoot` strategy didn't reject a pod with a non-numeric `USER`. ([#56711](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56711), [@php-coder](https://github.com/php-coder))