* sync time.
 
    * The goal is for administrators to be able to alert on proxies that, for
    * whatever reason, are quite stale.
* Fix a string comparison bug in IPVS graceful termination where UDP real servers are not deleted. ([#78999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78999), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

- The CRD handler now properly re-creates stale CR storage to reflect CRD update. ([#79114](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79114), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw))

- Fixed a bug in client-go where new clients with customized `Dial`, `Proxy`, `GetCert` config may get stale HTTP transports. ([#95427](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95427), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Resolves an issue that causes winkernel proxier to treat stale VIPs as valid ([#113567](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113567), [@daschott](https://github.com/daschott)) [SIG Network and Windows]

* This fix prevents a GCE PD volume from being mounted if the udev device link is stale and tries to correct the link. ([#66832](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66832), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

* fix race condition issue when detaching azure disk ([#60183](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60183), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix kubelet PVC stale metrics ([#59170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59170), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

- Fixed clearing of rate-limiter for the queue of checks for cleaning stale pod disruption conditions. The bug could result in the PDB synchronization updates firing too often or the pod disruption cleanups taking too long to happen. ([#114770](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114770), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))...

* The CRD handler now properly re-creates stale CR storage to reflect CRD update. ([#79114](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79114), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw))

- Fixed a bug in client-go where new clients with customized `Dial`, `Proxy`, `GetCert` config may get stale HTTP transports. ([#95427](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95427), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fixed some invalid and unimportant log calls. ([#121249](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121249), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle and Testing]
- Fixed stale SMB mount issue when SMB file share is deleted and then unmounted. ([#121851](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121851), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))