* Support German cloud for azure disk mount feature ([#50673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50673), [@clement-buchart](https://github.com/clement-buchart))
* BugFix: Exited containers are not Garbage Collected by the kubelet while the pod is running ([#53167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53167), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))

- Fixes a bug where images pinned by the container runtime can be garbage collected by kubelet. ([#120054](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120054), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao)) [SIG Node]

- Fixes a bug where images pinned by the container runtime can be garbage collected by kubelet. ([#120055](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120055), [@ruiwen-zhao](https://github.com/ruiwen-zhao)) [SIG Node]

  // specific to ephemeral containers. Fields in common with Container are in the
  // following inlined struct so than an EphemeralContainer may easily be converted
  // to a Container.
  optional EphemeralContainerCommon ephemeralContainerCommon = 1;

  // If set, the name of the container from PodSpec that this ephemeral container targets.

* kube-apiserver: the OpenID Connect authenticator can now verify ID Tokens signed with JOSE algorithms other than RS256 through the --oidc-signing-algs flag. ([#58544](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58544), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

- Adds the ability to disable Accelerator/GPU metrics collected by Kubelet ([#91930](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91930), [@RenaudWasTaken](https://github.com/RenaudWasTaken)) [SIG Node]

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

pkg syscall (windows-386), const WSASYS_STATUS_LEN = 128
pkg syscall (windows-386), const X509_ASN_ENCODING = 1
pkg syscall (windows-386), func CancelIoEx(Handle, *Overlapped) error
pkg syscall (windows-386), func ConnectEx(Handle, Sockaddr, *uint8, uint32, *uint32, *Overlapped) error
pkg syscall (windows-386), func FreeAddrInfoW(*AddrinfoW)
pkg syscall (windows-386), func GetAddrInfoW(*uint16, *uint16, *AddrinfoW, **AddrinfoW) error