- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in reconcileBackendPools ([#103997](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103997), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: return empty VMAS name if using standalone VM ([#103470](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103470), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

    * Add tmpfs monitoring support
* Support for Huge pages in empty_dir volume plugin ([#50072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50072), [@squall0gd](https://github.com/squall0gd))
    * [Huge pages](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt) can now be used with empty dir volume plugin.

  new endpoint, the rules for the new endpoint might not be added until
  much later). ([#122815](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122815), [@wedaly](https://github.com/wedaly)) [SIG Network]
- If a pvc has an empty storageClassName, persistentvolume controller won't try to assign a default StorageClass ([#122704](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122704), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

  new endpoint, the rules for the new endpoint might not be added until
  much later). ([#122757](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122757), [@hakman](https://github.com/hakman)) [SIG Network]
- If a pvc has an empty storageClassName, persistentvolume controller won't try to assign a default StorageClass ([#122704](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122704), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

- Kube-apiserver: bugfix DeleteCollection API fails if request body is non-empty ([#113967](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113967), [@sxllwx](https://github.com/sxllwx)) [SIG API Machinery]

  - apiserver_flowcontrol_next_s_bounds: min and max next S among non-empty queues
  - apiserver_flowcontrol_next_discounted_s_bounds: min and max next S - (sum [over requests executing] width * estimatedDuration) among non-empty queues ([#102859](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102859), [@MikeSpreitzer](https://github.com/MikeSpreitzer)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]

- Kube-apiserver: bugfix DeleteCollection API fails if request body is non-empty ([#113968](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113968), [@sxllwx](https://github.com/sxllwx)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Kube-apiserver: bugfix DeleteCollection API fails if request body is non-empty ([#113286](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113286), [@sxllwx](https://github.com/sxllwx)) [SIG API Machinery]

- OIDC authentication will now fail if the username asserted based on a CEL expression config is the empty string.  Previously the request would be authenticated with the username set to the empty string. ([#123568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123568), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))

  - update distroless-iptables to v0.4.5 ([#123230](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123230), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- If a pvc has an empty storageClassName, persistentvolume controller won't try to assign a default StorageClass ([#122704](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122704), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

## Dependencies