- Fixed computing backoff delay when using Job pod failure policy, by including in the backoff delay calculation pod failures ignored from the backoffLimit counter. ([#119434](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119434), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))

    public synchronized void close() {
        final SmbTreeHandleImpl th = this.treeHandle;
        if (th != null) {
            this.treeHandle = null;

            // Optimization: For non-strict lifecycle, delay tree handle closure
            // to allow connection reuse for subsequent operations
            if (this.transportContext.getConfig().isStrictResourceLifecycle()) {
                th.close();
            } else {

- Fix computing backoff delay when using Job pod failure policy, by including in the backoff delay calculation pod failures ignored from the backoffLimit counter.
  
  Also, compute the backoff delay more accurately for deleted pods. ([#119466](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119466), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps]

- Fix instance not found issues when an Azure Node is recreated in a short time ([#93316](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93316), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: initial delay in mounting azure disk & file ([#93052](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93052), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

    setUp(protocol)
    // Ping every 500 ms, starting at 500 ms.
    client =
      client
        .newBuilder()
        .pingInterval(Duration.ofMillis(500))
        .build()

    // Delay the response to give 1 ping enough time to be sent and replied to.
    server.enqueue(
      MockResponse
        .Builder()
        .bodyDelay(750, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
        .body("ABC")
        .build(),

- Kube-controller-manager: the `horizontal-pod-autoscaler-upscale-delay` and `horizontal-pod-autoscaler-downscale-delay` flags have been removed (deprecated and non-functional since v1.12). ([#124948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124948), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Autoscaling]

* CRI: `kubectl logs -f` now stops following when container stops, as it did pre-CRI. ([#44406](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44406), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))
* Azure cloudprovider: Reduce the polling delay for all azure clients to 5 seconds. This should speed up some operations at the cost of some additional quota. ([#43699](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43699), [@colemickens](https://github.com/colemickens))

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## Changelog since v1.32.6

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a bug causing unexpected delay of creating pods for newly created jobs ([#132159](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132159), [@linxiulei](https://github.com/linxiulei)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Fix: don't use docker config cache if it's empty ([#92330](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92330), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: initial delay in mounting azure disk & file ([#93052](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93052), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]