* kubeadm: Fix a bug where `kubeadm join` would wait 5 seconds without doing anything. Now `kubeadm join` executes the tasks immediately. ([#48737](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48737), [@mattmoyer](https://github.com/mattmoyer))

* fix azure disk attachment error on Linux ([#70002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70002), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* GCE/GKE load balancer health check default interval changes from 2 seconds to 8 seconds, unhealthyThreshold to 3. ([#70099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70099), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))
    * Health check parameters are configurable to be bigger than default values.

- Renames the timeout field for the DelegatingAuthenticationOptions to TokenRequestTimeout and set the timeout only for the token review client. Previously the timeout was also applied to watches making them reconnecting every 10 seconds. ([#101102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101102), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cloud Provider]

* GCE/GKE load balancer health check default interval changes from 2 seconds to 8 seconds, unhealthyThreshold to 3. ([#70099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70099), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))
    * Health check parameters are configurable to be bigger than default values.

        override fun contentType(): MediaType = "text/plain".toMediaType()

        override fun writeTo(sink: BufferedSink) {
          sink.writeUtf8("abc")
          sink.timeout().deadline(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS)
        }
      }
    val request1 =
      Request
        .Builder()
        .url(server.url("/"))
        .method("POST", requestBody1)
        .build()

* GCE/GKE load balancer health check default interval changes from 2 seconds to 8 seconds, unhealthyThreshold to 3. ([#70099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70099), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))
    * Health check parameters are configurable to be bigger than default values.

* 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))

    connection.writePingAndAwaitPong()
    val elapsedNanos = System.nanoTime() - pingAtNanos
    assertThat(elapsedNanos).isGreaterThan(0L)
    assertThat(elapsedNanos).isLessThan(TimeUnit.SECONDS.toNanos(1))

    // Verify the peer received what was expected.
    val pingFrame = peer.takeFrame()
    assertThat(pingFrame.type).isEqualTo(Http2.TYPE_PING)
    assertThat(pingFrame.streamId).isEqualTo(0)

* Caching added to the OIDC client auth plugin to fix races and reduce the time kubectl commands using this plugin take by several seconds. ([#38167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38167), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

- Fixed a data race in TopologyCache when `AddHints` and `SetNodes` are called concurrently. ([#117249](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117249), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps and Network]