*  - vSphere cloud provider (VCP) uses OS hostname and not vSphere Inventory VM Name.
    *    That means, now  VCP can handle cases where user changes VM inventory name.
    * - VCP can handle cases where VM migrates to other ESXi cluster or datacenter or vCenter.
    * The only requirement is the shared storage. VCP needs shared storage on all Node VMs.

    * plus is placed in a defer call so the locking is effectively
    * nonexistent.  This patch adds an anonymous function call inside
    * the loop to correctly handle acquiring the write lock with deferred
    * unlock to run at that function's completion, following the normal
    * golang lock/deferred-unlock pattern.

- Fixes a rare race condition handling requests that timeout ([#107460](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107460), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Mount-utils: Detect potential stale file handle ([#107040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107040), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Fixed an EndpointSlice Controller hashing bug that could cause EndpointSlices to incorrectly handle Pods with duplicate IP addresses. For example this could happen when a new Pod reused an IP that was also assigned to a Pod in a completed state. ([#115907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115907), [@qinqon](https://github.com/qinqon))...

* Fix kubelet to correctly umounts mount points for glusterfs when transport endpoint is not connected and nfs when there is a stale file handle ([#58660](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58660), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))
* Detach and clear bad disk URI ([#58345](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58345), [@rootfs](https://github.com/rootfs))

- Fix kubectl printer to correctly handle timestamps of events emitted using events.k8s.io API ([#94226](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94226), [@ingvagabund](https://github.com/ingvagabund)) [SIG CLI]
  ```sh
  $ kubectl get event

- Fixed dry-run output in kubectl apply --prune ([#69344](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69344), [@zegl](https://github.com/zegl))
- The kubectl wait command must handle when a watch returns an error vs closing by printing out the error and retrying the watch. ([#69389](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69389), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

### Uncategorized

- GCE L4 Loadbalancers now handle > 5 ports in service spec correctly. ([#99595](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99595), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- Fixes a rare race condition handling requests that timeout ([#107458](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107458), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Mount-utils: Detect potential stale file handle ([#106988](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106988), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage]

- Fixes a rare race condition handling requests that timeout ([#107459](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107459), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Mount-utils: Detect potential stale file handle ([#107039](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107039), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)