In-tree cloud provider bug fixes and improvements included:
- Adding initial Zones support to the provider using vSphere Tags
- Improving the testing harness for the cloud provider by introducing vcsim for automated testing
- Fixing a bug that was preventing updates from 1.10 to 1.11

* kube-proxy: feature gates are now specified as a map when provided via a JSON or YAML KubeProxyConfiguration, rather than as a string of key-value pairs. For example:

KubeProxyConfiguration Before:

```
apiVersion: kubeproxy.config.k8s.io/v1alpha1
kind: KubeProxyConfiguration
**featureGates: "SupportIPVSProxyMode=true"**
```

- No ([#108432](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108432), [@iXinqi](https://github.com/iXinqi)) [SIG Testing and Windows]
- PreFilter extension in the scheduler framework now returns not only status but also PreFilterResult ([#108648](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108648), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g)) [SIG Scheduling, Storage and Testing]

- Update debian-base, debian-iptables, setcap images to pick up CVE fixes
  - Debian-base to v1.9.0
  - Debian-iptables to v1.6.7
  - setcap to v2.0.4 (#106143, @cpanato) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Failing Test

- Fixes hostpath storage e2e tests within SELinux enabled env (#105786, @Elbehery) [SIG Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Update debian-base, debian-iptables, setcap images to pick up CVE fixes
  - Debian-base to v1.9.0
  - Debian-iptables to v1.6.7
  - setcap to v2.0.4 (#106147, @cpanato) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Failing Test

- Fixes hostpath storage e2e tests within SELinux enabled env (#105787, @Elbehery) [SIG Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- CEL can now correctly handle a CRD openAPIV3Schema that has neither Properties nor AdditionalProperties. ([#121459](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121459), [@jiahuif](https://github.com/jiahuif)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

* fix a bug that overwhelming number of prometheus metrics are generated because $NAMESPACE is not replaced by string "{namespace}" ([#68530](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68530), [@wenjiaswe](https://github.com/wenjiaswe))

- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.20.1 ([#115828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115828), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]
- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.20.2 ([#116404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116404), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.21.7
  - update setcap/debian-base to bookworm-v1.0.1
  - update distroless-iptables to v0.4.5 ([#123228](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123228), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture, Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Fixed kubelet creating extra sandbox for pods with RestartPolicyOnFailure after all containers succeeded ([#92614](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92614), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Node and Testing]