- The Pod `spec.podOS` field is promoted to GA. The `IdentifyPodOS` feature gate unconditionally enabled, and will no longer be accepted as a `--feature-gates` parameter in 1.27. ([#111229](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111229), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](...

  // the actual log data coming from the real kubelet).
  // +optional
  optional bool insecureSkipTLSVerifyBackend = 9;
}

// PodOS defines the OS parameters of a pod.
message PodOS {
  // Name is the name of the operating system. The currently supported values are linux and windows.
  // Additional value may be defined in future and can be one of:

* kube-up.sh no longer supports "centos" and "local" providers ([#76711](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76711), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))
* Ensure the backend pools are set correctly for Azure SLB with multiple backend pools (e.g. outbound rules) ([#76691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76691), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Ensure the backend pools are set correctly for Azure SLB with multiple backend pools (e.g. outbound rules) ([#76691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76691), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Ensure the backend pools are set correctly for Azure SLB with multiple backend pools (e.g. outbound rules) ([#76691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76691), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* **[stable]** Volume plugin for Portworx added capability to use [Portworx](http://www.portworx.com) as a storage provider for Kubernetes clusters. Portworx pools server capacity and turns servers or cloud instances into converged, highly available compute and storage nodes.
* **[stable]** Add support to use NFSv3, NFSv4, and GlusterFS on GCE/GKE GCI image based clusters.

## Changelog since v1.23.12

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Azure: Skip "instance not found" error for LB backend address pools ([#111428](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111428), [@lzhecheng](https://github.com/lzhecheng)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* fix race condition issue for smb mount on windows ([#75371](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75371), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Ensure the backend pools are set correctly for Azure SLB with multiple backend pools (e.g. outbound rules) ([#76691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76691), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Fix make azure disk URI as case insensitive ([#79020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79020), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Fix VMSS LoadBalancer backend pools so that the network won't be broken when instances are upgraded to latest model ([#81411](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81411), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))

    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.
    * [metatada-proxy addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.
* Ensure the backend pools are set correctly for Azure SLB with multiple backend pools (e.g. outbound rules) ([#76691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76691), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))