- Updated cAdvisor to v0.47.2 - Fix metrics in cri-o when a container restarts ([#118797](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118797), [@harche](https://github.com/harche)) [SIG Node]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed

  - Regenerate list of EC2 instances
  - Fix pricing endpoint in AWS China Region
  
  ### Azure
  - Add optional jitter on initial VMSS VM cache refresh, keep the refreshes spread over time
  - Serve from cache for the whole period of ongoing throttling
  - Fix unwanted VMSS VMs cache invalidations
  - Enforce setting the number of retries if cloud provider backoff is enabled
  - Don't update capacity if VMSS provisioning state is updating

- Updated cAdvisor to `v0.47.2` and fixed metrics in `cri-o` when a container restarts. ([#118774](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118774), [@harche](https://github.com/harche))
- Updated distroless I-tables to use registry.k8s.io/build-image/distroless-iptables:v0.2.5 ([#118541](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118541), [@jeremyrickard](https://github.com/jeremyrickard)) [SIG Testing]

* The following deprecated flags were removed from `kube-controller-manager`:

  * `replication-controller-lookup-cache-size`
  * `replicaset-lookup-cache-size`
  * `daemonset-lookup-cache-size`

  Don't use these flags. Using deprecated flags causes the server to print a warning. Using a removed flag causes the server to abort the startup.

  - *apiserver_cache_list_total*: Counter of LIST requests served from watch cache, broken down by resource_prefix and index_name
  - *apiserver_cache_list_fetched_objects_total*: Counter of objects read from watch cache in the course of serving a LIST request, broken down by resource_prefix and index_name

- Removed deprecated kubectl.kubernetes.io/default-logs-container support ([#109254](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109254), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- Renamed `apiserver_watch_cache_watch_cache_initializations_total` to `apiserver_watch_cache_initializations_total` ([#109579](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109579), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

- Updated cAdvisor to v0.44.2 - Fix metrics in cri-o when a container restarts ([#118800](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118800), [@harche](https://github.com/harche)) [SIG Node]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- github.com/google/cadvisor: [v0.44.1 → v0.44.2](https://github.com/google/cadvisor/compare/v0.44.1...v0.44.2)

- Fix availability set cache in vmss cache ([#100110](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100110), [@CecileRobertMichon](https://github.com/CecileRobertMichon)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

   ([#122571](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122571), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))
- Added the `apiserver_watch_cache_read_wait` metric to measure the watch cache impact on request latency.
   ([#123190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123190), [@padlar](https://github.com/padlar))

- Added support for Evented PLEG feature gate. ([#111384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111384), [@harche](https://github.com/harche))