- Fix detach azure disk issue when vm not exist ([#95177](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95177), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- If the parent directory of the file specified in the `--audit-log-path` argument does not exist, Kubernetes now creates it. ([#111227](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111227), [@vpnachev](https://github.com/vpnachev)) [SIG Auth]

- Azure: avoid setting cached Sku when updating VMSS and VMSS instances ([#102005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102005), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix a bug that a preemptor pod may exist as a phantom in the scheduler. ([#102498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102498), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Fixed a bug that a pod may remain unscheduled if any PreFilter plugin returns nodes that do not exist. ([#124765](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124765), [@chengjoey](https://github.com/chengjoey)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed

- Previously, `kubectl scale` returned the error message `error: no objects passed to scale <GroupResource> "<ResourceName>" not found` when the specified resource did not exist. 

// Confirmed by registry <******@****.***> 2024-11-17
au
// 2LDs
com.au
net.au
org.au
edu.au
gov.au
asn.au
id.au
// Historic 2LDs (closed to new registration, but sites still exist)
conf.au
oz.au
// CGDNs - http://www.cgdn.org.au/
act.au
nsw.au
nt.au
qld.au
sa.au
tas.au
vic.au
wa.au
// 3LDs
act.edu.au
catholic.edu.au

A vulnerability exists in the NodeRestriction admission controller where node users can delete their corresponding node object by patching themselves with an OwnerReference to a cluster-scoped resource. If the OwnerReference resource does not exist or is subsequently deleted, the given node object will be deleted via garbage collection. By default, node users are authorized for create and patch requests but not delete requests against their node object. Since the NodeRestriction admission controller...

### Bug or Regression

- Do not fail sorting empty elements. ([#94666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94666), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh)) [SIG CLI]
- Fix detach azure disk issue when vm not exist ([#95177](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95177), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Kubelet: Fixed a startup crash in devicemanager. ([#113021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113021), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips))
- Kubelet: fixed log spam from kubelet_getters.go `Path does not exist`. ([#112650](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112650), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips))

* Fix panic in kubectl cp command ([#75037](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75037), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
* iscsi modules haven't even been loaded /sys/class/iscsi_host directory won't exist ([#74787](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74787), [@jianglingxia](https://github.com/jianglingxia))