- 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]

* Fix nil pointer dereference in test framework ([#37583](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37583), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))
* Fixed detection of master during creation of multizone nodes cluster by kube-up. ([#38617](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38617), [@jszczepkowski](https://github.com/jszczepkowski))

- kubelet v1.24.5
- kubelet v1.25.0


To upgrade, refer to this documentation _For core Kubernetes:_ https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cluster-management/#upgrading-a-cluster 

**Detection**:

Kubernetes Audit logs may indicate if the user name was misspelled to bypass the restriction placed on which user is a pod allowed to run as.

	// sends `null` when no policy is set and the intended behavior is that the
	// service account should inherit parent policy.
	//
	// However, for a policy like `{"Statement":[]}`, the intention is to not
	// provide any permissions via the session policy - i.e. the service account
	// can do nothing (such a JSON could be generated by an external application

### 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...

- 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]

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

     * comment: Fields used for language detection in the indexer.
     * @return The value of found property. (NotNull: if not found, exception but basically no way)
     */
    String getIndexerLanguageFields();

    /**
     * Get the value for the key 'indexer.language.detect.length'. <br>
     * The value is, e.g. 1000 <br>
     * comment: Length of text for language detection in the indexer.

- Revert "fix: handle socket file detection on Windows" ([#127100](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127100), [@jsturtevant](https://github.com/jsturtevant)) [SIG Node]