- Fix: support removal of nodes backed by deleted non VMSS instances on Azure ([#91184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91184), [@bpineau](https://github.com/bpineau)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* Registries backed by the generic Store's `Update` implementation support delete-on-update, which allows resources to be automatically deleted during an update provided: ([#48065](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48065), [@ironcladlou](https://github.com/ironcladlou))...

 - Fix: azure disk dangling attach issue which would cause API throttling ([#90749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90749), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
 - Fix: support removal of nodes backed by deleted non VMSS instances on Azure ([#91184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91184), [@bpineau](https://github.com/bpineau)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- EmptyDir memory backed volumes are sized as the minimum of pod allocatable memory on a host and an optional explicit user provided value. ([#100319](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100319), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr)) [SIG Node]

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))

- 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]

* Resolves an issue serving aggregated APIs backed by services that respond to requests to `/` with non-2xx HTTP responses ([#79895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79895), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k))

* Add orphaning finalizer logic to GC ([#25599](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25599), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))
* GCI-backed masters mount srv/kubernetes and srv/sshproxy in the right place ([#26238](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26238), [@ihmccreery](https://github.com/ihmccreery))

 - Fix: support removal of nodes backed by deleted non VMSS instances on Azure ([#91184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91184), [@bpineau](https://github.com/bpineau)) [SIG Cloud Provider]