- VSphere: Fix regression during attach disk if datastore is within a storage folder or datastore cluster. ([#102969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102969), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- Kubelet config file will be backed up to `/etc/kubernetes/tmp/` folder with `kubeadm-kubelet-config` append with a random suffix as the filename ([#114695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114695), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

* Kubelet: Fix image garbage collector attempting to remove in-use images. ([#46121](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46121), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))
* Add ip-masq-agent addon to the addons folder which is used in GCE if  --non-masquerade-cidr is set to 0/0 ([#46038](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46038), [@dnardo](https://github.com/dnardo))

	* ip-masq-agent is now on by default for GCE ([#47794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47794), [@dnardo](https://github.com/dnardo))

  * Add ip-masq-agent addon to the addons folder which is used in GCE if `--non-masquerade-cidr` is set to 0/0 ([#46038](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46038), [@dnardo](https://github.com/dnardo))

- Fix an error when using external etcd but storing etcd certificates in the same folder with the same name used by kubeadm for local etcd certificates; for an older version of kubeadm, the workaround is to avoid file name used by kubeadm for local etcd. ([#80867](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80867), [@fabriziopandin...

- For vSphere: fix regression during attach disk if datastore is within a storage folder or datastore cluster. ([#102892](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102892), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

- Kubeadm: do not check if the `/etc/kubernetes/manifests` folder is empty on joining worker nodes during preflight ([#104942](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104942), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

- VSphere: Fix regression during attach disk if datastore is within a storage folder or datastore cluster. ([#102999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102999), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- The `StructuredAuthenticationConfiguration` feature is now beta and enabled. ([#123719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123719), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))
- The `kube_codegen` tool now ignores the vendor folder during code generation.
   ([#122729](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122729), [@jparrill](https://github.com/jparrill))