Sig Azure was focused on two primary new alpha features:
- Adding Azure Availability Zones support to cloud provider.
- Supporting Cross RG resources (disks, Azure File and node [Experimental]

Besides the above new features, support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) and Cluster-Autoscaler is now stable and considered GA:

0 and 255 inclusive.  Hexadecimal escapes satisfy this condition
by construction. The escapes <code>\u</code> and <code>\U</code>
represent Unicode code points so within them some values are illegal,
in particular those above <code>0x10FFFF</code> and surrogate halves.
</p>

<p>
After a backslash, certain single-character escapes represent special values:
</p>

<pre class="grammar">
\a   U+0007 alert or bell

## Upgrades

* ⬆️ Drop support for Python 3.7, require Python 3.8 or above. PR [#10442](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/10442) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).

### Internal

// pod's hosts file.
message HostAlias {
  // IP address of the host file entry.
  optional string ip = 1;

  // Hostnames for the above IP address.
  repeated string hostnames = 2;
}

// Represents a host path mapped into a pod.
// Host path volumes do not support ownership management or SELinux relabeling.
message HostPathVolumeSource {

  
  vSphere releases less than 67u3 are deprecated as of v1.21. Please consider upgrading vSphere to 67u3 or above. vSphere CSI Driver requires minimum vSphere 67u3.
  
  VM Hardware version less than 15 is deprecated as of v1.21. Please consider upgrading the Node VM Hardware version to 15 or above. vSphere CSI Driver recommends Node VM's Hardware version set to at least vmx-15.
  

* Taint
  * The `taint` command will not function in a skewed 1.5 / 1.6 environment - client and server versions must match (See Action required section above)
  * Change taints/tolerations to api fields ([#38957](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38957), [@aveshagarwal](https://github.com/aveshagarwal))

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  - DaemonSet pods now make use of scheduling features that require kubelets to be at 1.11 or above. Ensure all kubelets in the cluster are at 1.11 or above before upgrading kube-controller-manager to 1.13.

- VSphere releases less than 7.0u2 are deprecated as of v1.24. Please consider upgrading vSphere to 7.0u2 or above. vSphere CSI Driver requires minimum vSphere 7.0u2.

  General Support for vSphere 6.7 will end on October 15, 2022. vSphere 6.7 Update 3 is deprecated in Kubernetes v1.24.  Customers are recommended to upgrade vSphere (both ESXi and vCenter) to 7.0u2 or above.  vSphere CSI Driver 2.2.3 and higher supports CSI Migration.

* Fix in vSphere Cloud Provider to handle upgrades from kubernetes version less than v1.9.4 to v1.9.4 and above. ([#62919](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62919), [@abrarshivani](https://github.com/abrarshivani))