- Fixed clearing of rate-limiter for the queue of checks for cleaning stale pod disruption conditions. The bug could result in the PDB synchronization updates firing too often or the pod disruption cleanups taking too long to happen. ([#114770](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114770), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))...

* fix race condition issue when detaching azure disk ([#60183](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60183), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix kubelet PVC stale metrics ([#59170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59170), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

- Kubeadm will cleanup the stale data on best effort basis. Stale data will be removed when each reset phase are executed, default etcd data directory will be cleanup when the `remove-etcd-member` phase are executed. ([#110972](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110972), [@chendave](h...

- Fixed some invalid and unimportant log calls. ([#121249](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121249), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle and Testing]
- Fixed stale SMB mount issue when SMB file share is deleted and then unmounted. ([#121851](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121851), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))