* 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 a regression setting `--audit-log-path=-` to log to stdout in 1.22 pre-release. ([#103875](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103875), [@andrewrynhard](https://github.com/andrewrynhard))
- Fixed an issue which didn't append OS's environment variables with the one provided in Credential Provider Config file, which may fail execution of external credential provider binary. 

    * This is a breaking change (and only slightly) if you used dependencies with `yield`, used `except` in those dependencies, and didn't raise again.

- Fixed `azureFile` `volumeID` collision issue in CSI migration. ([#107575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107575), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Fixed a bug in attachdetach controller that didn't properly handle kube-apiserver errors leading to stuck attachments/detachments. ([#108167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108167), [@jfremy](https://github.com/jfremy))

- [`KT-59640`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-59640) K2: `expect` constructor requires calling `this` or `super` but didn't use to
- [`KT-58883`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-58883) K2: False negative type mismatch for generic annotation in collection literal

- 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.

- 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: statle smb mount issue when smb file share is deleted and then unmount ([#121851](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121851), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage]
- 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.