- Ignore `not a vmss instance` error for VMAS nodes in `EnsureBackendPoolDeleted`. ([#105185](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105185), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov))
- Ignore the case when comparing azure tags in service annotation. ([#104705](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104705), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))

- Fix: consolidate logs for instance not found error (#105364, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- 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]

- AWS cloudprovider will ignore provisioning load balancers if the annotation service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-type is external or nlb-ip ([#97975](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97975), [@kishorj](https://github.com/kishorj)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Do not raise an error when setting a label with the same value, ignore it. ([#105936](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105936), [@zigarn](https://github.com/zigarn))
- Do not report terminated container metrics ([#110950](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110950), [@yangjunmyfm192085](https://github.com/yangjunmyfm192085)) [SIG Node]

  
  When the feature gate is enabled, kubelet ignores errors that happens during setting the following sysctl values: `vm.overcommit_memory`, `vm.panic_on_oom`, `kernel.panic`, `kernel.panic_on_oops`, `kernel.keys.root_maxkeys`, `kernel.keys.root_maxbytes`. (These sysctl values for the host, not for the containers)
  
  kubelet also ignores an error during opening `/dev/kmsg`.

- Changes the kubectl `--validate` flag from a bool to a string that accepts the values {true, strict, warn, false, ignore}
  - true/strict - perform validation and error the request on any invalid fields in the ojbect. It will attempt to perform server-side validation if it is enabled on the apiserver, otherwise it will fall back to client-side validation.

- Kube-controller-manager: increased the global level for broadcaster's logging to 3 so that users can ignore event messages by lowering the logging level. It reduces information noise. ([#122293](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122293), [@mengjiao-liu](https://github.com/mengjiao-liu))

- In CRD webhook conversion, Kubernetes will now ignore changes to metadata other than for labels and annotations. ([#77743](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77743), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

### **Other notable changes**

#### Admission plugin
* OwnerReferencesPermissionEnforcement admission plugin ignores pods/status. ([#45747](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45747), [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))


* Ignored mirror pods in PodPreset admission plugin. ([#45958](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45958), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

- Fixes regression in 1.26.5 causing running pods with devices to be terminated if kubelet is restarted ([#119706](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119706), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani)) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Ignore context canceled from validate and mutate webhook ([#120019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120019), [@divyasri537](https://github.com/divyasri537)) [SIG API Machinery]