- Kubeadm: avoid detection of the container runtime for commands that do not need it ([#97625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97625), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

### SIG-autoscaling

SIG Autoscaling focused on improving the Horizontal Pod Autoscaling API and algorithm:
- We released autoscaling/v2beta2, which cleans up and unifies the API
- We improved readiness detection and smoothing to work well in a larger variety or use cases

### SIG-Azure

Sig Azure was focused on two primary new alpha features:
- Adding Azure Availability Zones support to cloud provider.

- Fix detection of image filesystem, disk metrics for devicemapper, detection of OOM Kills on 5.0+ linux kernels. ([#92919](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92919), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation...

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* Fix broken detection of non-root image user ID ([#78261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78261), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))

* Fix broken detection of non-root image user ID ([#78261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78261), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))

### Bug or Regression

- Kubeadm: fix a bug where the static pod changes detection logic is inconsistent with kubelet ([#118069](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118069), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Make / build: fix docker IP address detection ([#135578](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135578), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Action Required

* [kubelet] Allow opting out of automatic cloud provider detection in kubelet. By default kubelet will auto-detect cloud providers ([#28258](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/28258), [@vishh](https://github.com/vishh))