* For Deployment, ReplicaSet, and DaemonSet, selectors are now immutable when updating via the new `apps/v1beta2` API. For backward compatibility, selectors can still be changed when updating via `apps/v1beta1` or `extensions/v1beta1`. ([#50719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50719), [@crimsonfaith91](https://github.com/crimsonfaith91))

- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105402, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: ignore the case when updating Azure tags (#104686, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Revert PR #102925 which introduced unexpected scheduling behavior based on balanced resource allocation (#105238, @damemi) [SIG Scheduling]

* For Deployment, ReplicaSet, and DaemonSet, selectors are now immutable when updating via the new `apps/v1beta2` API. For backward compatibility, selectors can still be changed when updating via `apps/v1beta1` or `extensions/v1beta1`. ([#50719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50719), [@crimsonfaith91](https://github.com/crimsonfaith91))

* Fix AWS NLB security group updates where valid security group ports were incorrectly removed ([#68422](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68422), [@kellycampbell](https://github.com/kellycampbell))
    * when updating a service or when node changes occur.
* Allow for watching objects larger than 1MB given etcd accepts objects of size up to 1.5MB ([#72053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72053), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

* Re-enable nodeipam controller for external clouds.  ([#63049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63049), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))
* kubelet: fix hangs in updating Node status after network interruptions/changes between the kubelet and API server ([#63492](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63492), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Kubeadm: improved retries when updating node information, in case `kube-apiserver` is temporarily unavailable ([#114176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114176), [@QuantumEnergyE](https://github.com/QuantumEnergyE))

- All api-server log request lines in a more greppable format. ([#87203](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87203), [@lavalamp](https://github.com/lavalamp)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Azure VMSS LoadBalancerBackendAddressPools updating has been improved with sequential-sync + concurrent-async requests. ([#88699](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88699), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Azure: avoid setting cached Sku when updating VMSS and VMSS instances ([#102005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102005), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Fix problem in updating VolumeAttached in node status ([#112303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112303), [@xing-yang](https://github.com/xing-yang)) [SIG Apps]

- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105404, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: ignore the case when updating Azure tags (#104687, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Revert PR #102925 which introduced unexpected scheduling behavior based on balanced resource allocation (#105239, @damemi) [SIG Scheduling]