- Fix: azure file latency issue for metadata-heavy workloads ([#97082](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97082), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fixed Cinder volume IDs on OpenStack Train ([#96673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96673), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### Other notable changes

* CustomResourceDefinitions: OpenAPI v3 validation schemas containing `$ref`references are no longer permitted (valid references could not be constructed previously because property ids were not permitted either). Before upgrading, ensure CRD definitions do not include those `$ref` fields. ([#58438](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58438), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

* CustomResourceDefinitions: OpenAPI v3 validation schemas containing `$ref`references are no longer permitted (valid references could not be constructed previously because property ids were not permitted either). Before upgrading, ensure CRD definitions do not include those `$ref` fields. ([#58438](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58438), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

- cloud.google.com/go/gkehub: v0.12.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkemulticloud: v0.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gsuiteaddons: v1.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/iam: v0.13.0
- cloud.google.com/go/iap: v1.7.1
- cloud.google.com/go/ids: v1.3.0
- cloud.google.com/go/iot: v1.6.0
- cloud.google.com/go/kms: v1.10.1
- cloud.google.com/go/language: v1.9.0
- cloud.google.com/go/lifesciences: v0.8.0
- cloud.google.com/go/logging: v1.7.0

- cloud.google.com/go/gkehub: v0.12.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gkemulticloud: v0.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gsuiteaddons: v1.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/iam: v0.13.0
- cloud.google.com/go/iap: v1.7.1
- cloud.google.com/go/ids: v1.3.0
- cloud.google.com/go/iot: v1.6.0
- cloud.google.com/go/kms: v1.10.1
- cloud.google.com/go/language: v1.9.0
- cloud.google.com/go/lifesciences: v0.8.0
- cloud.google.com/go/logging: v1.7.0

* make using service account credentials from controllers optional ([#35970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35970), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))
* AWS: strong-typing for k8s vs aws volume ids ([#35883](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35883), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))

- Kubectl debug now includes the sysadmin profile. ([#119200](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119200), [@eiffel-fl](https://github.com/eiffel-fl))
- Kubelet now supports configuring the IDs used to create user namespaces.
   ([#123593](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123593), [@giuseppe](https://github.com/giuseppe))

* Add sync state loop in master's volume reconciler ([#34859](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34859), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))
* AWS: strong-typing for k8s vs aws volume ids ([#35883](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35883), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))

- kubelet now accepts `pid=<number>` in the `--system-reserved` and `--kube-reserved` options to ensure that the specified number of process IDs will be reserved for the system as a whole and for Kubernetes system daemons respectively.  Please reference `Kube Reserved` and `System Reserved` in `Reserve Compute Resources for System Daemons` in the Kubernetes documentation for general discussion...

- cloud.google.com/go/gkemulticloud: v0.5.0 → v1.0.0
- cloud.google.com/go/gsuiteaddons: v1.5.0 → v1.6.1
- cloud.google.com/go/iam: v0.13.0 → v1.1.1
- cloud.google.com/go/iap: v1.7.1 → v1.8.1
- cloud.google.com/go/ids: v1.3.0 → v1.4.1
- cloud.google.com/go/iot: v1.6.0 → v1.7.1
- cloud.google.com/go/kms: v1.10.1 → v1.15.0
- cloud.google.com/go/language: v1.9.0 → v1.10.1
- cloud.google.com/go/lifesciences: v0.8.0 → v0.9.1