- 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

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.27+ regression in watch stability by serving watch requests without a resourceVersion from the watch cache by default, as in <1.27 (disabling the change in #115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in #115096 to serve these requests from underlying storage is still...

* 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.

- Client-go now exposes two new metrics to monitor the client-go logic that
  generate http.Transports for the clients.
  
  - `rest_client_transport_cache_entries` is a gauge metric
  with the number of existing entries in the internal cache
  
  - `rest_client_transport_create_calls_total` is a counter
  that increments each time a new transport is created, storing

  - *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))

- Setting a mirror pod's phase to Succeeded or Failed can prevent the corresponding static pod from restarting due mutation of a Kubelet cache. ([#116482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116482), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- 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 `apiserver_envelope_encryption_dek_cache_filled` to measure number of records in data encryption key (DEK) cache. ([#119878](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119878), [@ritazh](https://github.com/ritazh))