* Check for known manifests during preflight instead of only checking for non-empty manifests directory. This makes the preflight checks less heavy-handed by specifically checking for well-known files (kube-apiserver.yaml, kube-controller-manager.yaml, kube-scheduler.yaml, etcd.yaml) in /etc/kubernetes/manifests instead of simply checking for a non-empty directory. ([#57287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57287), [@mattkelly](https://github.com/mattkelly))

- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api: 6ce0bf3 → v0.17.2
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/cmd/config: v0.11.2 → v0.14.1
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kustomize/v5: 6ce0bf3 → v5.4.2
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml: 6ce0bf3 → v0.17.1
- sigs.k8s.io/yaml: v1.3.0 → v1.4.0

### Removed
- github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/k8s-cloud-provider: [f118173](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/k8s-cloud-provider/tree/f118173)

* Fix aggressive VM calls for Azure VMSS ([#83102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83102), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

    * Disable timestamp adjustment in logs to optimize performance.
    * Reduce logging agent buffer chunk limit to 512k to optimize performance.
* Fix a bug on GCE that /etc/crictl.yaml is not generated when crictl is preloaded. ([#66877](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66877), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))

- go.uber.org/multierr: v1.1.0 → v1.5.0
- go.uber.org/zap: v1.10.0 → v1.16.0
- gopkg.in/yaml.v3: 9f266ea → eeeca48
- k8s.io/kube-openapi: 591a79e → 9528897
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api: v0.8.5 → v0.8.8
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/cmd/config: v0.9.7 → v0.9.10
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kustomize/v4: v4.0.5 → v4.1.2
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml: v0.10.15 → v0.10.17
- sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v4: v4.1.0 → v4.1.1

### Removed

# Plugin repository URLs.
plugin.repositories=https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/codelibs/fess/,https://fess.codelibs.org/plugin/artifacts.yaml
# Version filter for plugins.
plugin.version.filter=


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				"text/x-vbdotnet",
				"text/x-vbscript",
				"text/x-vcalendar",
				"text/x-vcard",
				"text/x-verilog",
				"text/x-vhdl",
				"text/x-web-markdown",
				"text/x-yacc",
				"text/x-yaml",
				"video/3gpp",
				"video/3gpp-tt",
				"video/3gpp2",
				"video/bmpeg",
				"video/bt656",
				"video/celb",
				"video/dv",
				"video/example",
				"video/h261",

- Fix unsafe JSON construction in a number of locations in the codebase ([#81158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81158), [@zouyee](https://github.com/zouyee))

- sigs.k8s.io/json: c049b76 → 9f7c6b3
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api: v0.10.1 → v0.11.4
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/cmd/config: v0.10.2 → v0.10.6
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kustomize/v4: v4.4.1 → v4.5.4
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml: v0.13.0 → v0.13.6
- sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v4: v4.1.2 → v4.2.1

### Removed
- cloud.google.com/go/firestore: v1.1.0

- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/api: v0.8.11 → v0.10.1
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/cmd/config: v0.9.13 → v0.10.2
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kustomize/v4: v4.2.0 → v4.4.1
- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kyaml: v0.11.0 → v0.13.0

### Removed
- cloud.google.com/go/datastore: v1.1.0
- cloud.google.com/go/pubsub: v1.2.0
- github.com/alecthomas/units: [f65c72e](https://github.com/alecthomas/units/tree/f65c72e)