### SIG Node

- Fixed a bug in previous releases where a pod could be placed inside another pod's cgroup when specifying --cgroup-root ([#70678](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70678), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

* Fixes a bug in previous releases where a pod could be placed inside another pod's cgroup when specifying --cgroup-root ([#70678](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70678), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

### Bug or Regression

- Bump system-validators to v1.10.2: remove version-specific cgroup kernel config checks to avoid false failures on cgroup v2 systems when v1-only configs are missing. ([#134087](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134087), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

  Fixed skip `not found` nodes when reconciling LB backend address pools ([#105188](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105188), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))
- Fixed occasional pod cgroup freeze when using cgroup v1 and systemd driver. ([#104528](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104528), [@kolyshkin](https://github.com/kolyshkin))

- Kubeadm: get k8s CI version markers from k8s infra bucket ([#98836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98836), [@hasheddan](https://github.com/hasheddan)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Release]
- Kubelet should ignore cgroup driver check on Windows node. ([#98385](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98385), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Node]

* Default resourceGroup should be used when the value of annotation azure-load-balancer-resource-group is an empty string. ([#79514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79514), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Remove pids cgroup controller requirement when related feature gates are disabled ([#79073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79073), [@rafatio](https://github.com/rafatio))

- `kubeadm`: updated warning message when swap space is detected. When swap is
  active on Linux, `kubeadm` explains that swap is supported for cgroup v2 only and
  is beta but disabled by default. ([#120198](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120198), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

* Fix SessionAffinity not updated issue for Azure load balancer ([#64180](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64180), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fixes a hang on kubelet startup when using systemd cgroup driver of libcontainer. ([#61926](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61926), [@filbranden](https://github.com/filbranden))

### Bug or Regression

- Bump system-validators to v1.9.2: remove version-specific cgroup kernel config checks to avoid false failures on cgroup v2 systems when v1-only configs are missing. ([#134086](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134086), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Kubeadm: get k8s CI version markers from k8s infra bucket ([#98836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98836), [@hasheddan](https://github.com/hasheddan)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Release]
- Kubelet should ignore cgroup driver check on Windows node. ([#98384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98384), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Node]
- TerminationGracePeriodSeconds from pod spec is respected for the mirror pod