- Fixed computing backoff delay when using Job pod failure policy, by including in the backoff delay calculation pod failures ignored from the backoffLimit counter. ([#119434](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119434), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))

- Fix instance not found issues when an Azure Node is recreated in a short time ([#93316](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93316), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: initial delay in mounting azure disk & file ([#93052](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93052), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

- Fix: don't use docker config cache if it's empty ([#92330](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92330), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: initial delay in mounting azure disk & file ([#93052](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93052), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

* GCE: Fixes ILB creation on automatic networks with manually created subnetworks. ([#57351](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57351), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))
* Configurable liveness probe initial delays for etcd and kube-apiserver in GCE ([#57749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57749), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Fix computing backoff delay when using Job pod failure policy, by including in the backoff delay calculation pod failures ignored from the backoffLimit counter.
  
  Also, compute the backoff delay more accurately for deleted pods. ([#119466](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119466), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps]

* kubectl: improves compatibility with older servers when creating/updating API objects ([#61949](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61949), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Bound cloud allocator to 10 retries with 100 ms delay between retries. ([#61375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61375), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))

## Changelog since v1.21.12

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Correct event registration for multiple scheduler plugins; this fixes a potential significant delay in re-queueing unschedulable pods. ([#109466](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109466), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

* Free up CPU and memory requested but unused by Metrics Server Pod Nanny. ([#57252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57252), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))
* Configurable liveness probe initial delays for etcd and kube-apiserver in GCE ([#57749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57749), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

* Bound cloud allocator to 10 retries with 100 ms delay between retries. ([#61375](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61375), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))

* Delay CSI client initialization to make reconstruction of CSI volume possible because clients may not be available on kubelet restart. ([#74652](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74652), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))