*   The default `auto-detect` behavior of the kubelet's `--cloud-provider` flag is removed.
    *   You can manually set `--cloud-provider=auto-detect`, but be aware that this behavior will be removed completely in a future version.

- Stdin is now only passed to client-go exec credential plugins when it is detected to be an interactive terminal. Previously, it was passed to client-go exec plugins when **stdout** was detected to be an interactive terminal. ([#99654](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99654), [@ankeesler](https://github.com/ankeesler)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]

    * Logging Agent Improvements
    * Bump logging agent version to 0.2-1.5.33-1-k8s-1.
    * Appropriately set log severity for k8s_container.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze message field instead of log field.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze streams based on local resource id.
    * Disable the metadata agent for monitored resource construction in logging.

    * Logging Agent Improvements
    * Bump logging agent version to 0.2-1.5.33-1-k8s-1.
    * Appropriately set log severity for k8s_container.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze message field instead of log field.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze streams based on local resource id.
    * Disable the metadata agent for monitored resource construction in logging.

     disabled by setting the `--horizontal-pod-autoscaler-use-rest-clients` flag to `false`.

### Cluster Lifecycle

- The `auto-detect` behavior of the kubelet's `--cloud-provider` flag is deprecated.

  - In version 1.8, the default value for the kubelet's `--cloud-provider` flag is `auto-detect`. Be aware that it works only on GCE, AWS and Azure.

    * Logging Agent Improvements
    * Bump logging agent version to 0.2-1.5.33-1-k8s-1.
    * Appropriately set log severity for k8s_container.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze message field instead of log field.
    * Fix detect exceptions plugin to analyze streams based on local resource id.
    * Disable the metadata agent for monitored resource construction in logging.

- Added optional `--detect-local-mode` flag to kube-proxy. Valid values are "ClusterCIDR" (default matching previous behavior) and "NodeCIDR" ([#87748](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87748), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle, Network...

* fix: retry detach azure disk issue ([#78700](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78700), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
    * try to only update vm if detach a non-existing disk when got <200, error> after detach disk operation

- Fixed attaching volumes after detach errors. Now volumes that failed to detach are not treated as attached, Kubernetes will make sure they are fully attached before they can be used by pods. ([#120595](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120595), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Apps...

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