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- The `--leader-elect*` CLI args are now honored in scheduler. ([#105915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105915), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
- The `--leader-elect*` CLI args are now honored in the scheduler. ([#105712](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105712), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

- kubelet now defaults to `--cloud-provider=auto-detect`, use `--cloud-provider=''` to preserve previous default of no cloud provider (#28258, @vishh)

## Previous Releases Included in v1.4.0

- Adds support for `InterfaceNamePrefix` and `BridgeInterface` as arguments to `--detect-local-mode` option and also introduces a new optional `--pod-interface-name-prefix` and `--pod-bridge-interface` flags to kube-proxy. ([#95400](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95400), [@tssurya](https://github.com/tssurya))

  - [beta] Kubelet integrates with memcg notification API to detect when a hard eviction threshold is crossed ([kubernetes/features#125](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/125))

- Fixed bug that caused cAdvisor to incorrectly detect single-socket multi-NUMA topology. ([#99209](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99209), [@iwankgb](https://github.com/iwankgb)) [SIG Node]

- Fix scoring for NodeResourcesBalancedAllocation plugins when nodes have containers with no requests. (#106081, @ahmad-diaa) [SIG Scheduling]
- Support more than 100 disk mounts on Windows (#105673, @andyzhangx) [SIG Storage and Windows]

### API Change

- Kube-apiserver: Fixes handling of CRD schemas containing literal null values in enums (#104990, @liggitt) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Network]

### Bug or Regression

- Detach volumes from vSphere nodes not tracked by attach-detach controller (#104910, @gnufied) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fix: consolidate logs for instance not found error (#105364, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]