- Fix: skip case sensitivity when checking Azure NSG rules
  fix: ensure InstanceShutdownByProviderID return false for creating Azure VMs ([#104447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104447), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Fixes issue https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-azure/issues/4230 and removes the additional filtering on `NotReady` nodes by the azure cloud provider code ([#119128](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119128), [@alexanderConstantinescu](https://github.com/alexanderConstantinescu)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### Other notable changes

* fix device name change issue for azure disk: add remount logic ([#57953](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57953), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* GCE: Allows existing internal load balancers to continue using an outdated subnetwork  ([#57861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57861), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

- github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go: [v55.0.0+incompatible → v68.0.0+incompatible](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/compare/v55.0.0...v68.0.0)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal: [v0.9.20 → v0.9.23](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal/compare/v0.9.20...v0.9.23)

### Changed
- github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go: [v43.0.0+incompatible → v55.0.0+incompatible](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/compare/v43.0.0...v55.0.0)
- github.com/Azure/go-ansiterm: [d6e3b33 → d185dfc](https://github.com/Azure/go-ansiterm/compare/d6e3b33...d185dfc)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal: [v0.9.5 → v0.9.13](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal/compare/v0.9.5...v0.9.13)

- cloud.google.com/go: v0.81.0 → v0.97.0
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal: [v0.9.13 → v0.9.20](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal/compare/v0.9.13...v0.9.20)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/mocks: [v0.4.1 → v0.4.2](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/mocks/compare/v0.4.1...v0.4.2)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest: [v0.11.18 → v0.11.27](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/compare/v0.11.18...v0.11.27)

- Fix: ignore the case when comparing azure tags in service annotation ([#104705](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104705), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Fixed a regression introduced in 1.24.0 where Azure load balancers were not kept up to date with the state of cluster nodes. In particular, nodes that are not in the ready state and are not newly created (i.e. not having the `node.cloudprovider.kubernetes.io/uninitialized` taint) now get removed from Azure load balancers. ([#109931](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109931), [@ricky-rav](https://github.com/ricky-rav))...

### Removed
- github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go: [v68.0.0+incompatible](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/tree/v68.0.0)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal: [v0.9.23](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/tree/autorest/adal/v0.9.23)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/date: [v0.3.0](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/tree/autorest/date/v0.3.0)

- Fixes issue https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-azure/issues/4230 and removes the additional filtering on `NotReady` nodes by the azure cloud provider code ([#119128](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119128), [@alexanderConstantinescu](https://github.com/alexanderConstantinescu)) [SIG Cloud Provider]