* kubelet `--cert-dir` now defaults to `/var/lib/kubelet/pki`, in order to ensure bootstrapped and rotated certificates persist beyond a reboot. resolves an issue in kubeadm with false-positive `/var/lib/kubelet is not empty` message during pre-flight checks ([#53317](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53317), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fix: not tagging static public IP ([#101752](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101752), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fixed false-positive uncertain volume attachments, which led to unexpected detachment of CSI migrated volumes ([#101737](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101737), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

* Fixes a bug in openapi published for custom resources using x-kubernetes-preserve-unknown-fields extensions, so that kubectl will allow sending unknown fields for that portion of the object. ([#79636](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79636), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

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- Fix: delete non existing disk issue ([#102083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102083), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fixed false-positive uncertain volume attachments, which led to unexpected detachment of CSI migrated volumes ([#101737](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101737), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227)) [SIG Apps and Storage]