* inside of which a write lock was intended to prevent races against
    * VM creation, but the usage of the sync.RWMutex type is incorrect,
    * plus is placed in a defer call so the locking is effectively
    * nonexistent.  This patch adds an anonymous function call inside
    * the loop to correctly handle acquiring the write lock with deferred
    * unlock to run at that function's completion, following the normal

- Fixed a bug in the scheduler where it would crash when prefilter returns a non-existent node. ([#124933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124933), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]
- Fixed a bug that Pods could stuck in the unschedulable pod pool 

* client-go: fake clients now properly return NotFound errors when attempting to patch non-existent objects ([#70886](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70886), [@bouk](https://github.com/bouk))

- Fixed bug that caused a resource to include patch directives when using strategic merge patch against a non-existent field. ([#117568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117568), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski))

* Set default snap channel on charms to 1.7 stable ([#48874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48874), [@ktsakalozos](https://github.com/ktsakalozos))
* prevent unsetting of nonexistent previous port in kubeapi-load-balancer charm ([#49033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49033), [@wwwtyro](https://github.com/wwwtyro))

* kubeadm: Fix a bug on some OSes where the kubelet tried to mount a volume path that is non-existent and on a read-only filesystem  ([#55320](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55320), [@andrewrynhard](https://github.com/andrewrynhard))

- Fixed static pod add and removes restarts in certain cases. ([#107695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107695), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips))
- Fixed: deleted a non-existent Azure disk issue. ([#107406](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107406), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))