* fix smb remount issue on Windows ([#73661](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73661), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* remove stale OutOfDisk condition from kubelet side ([#72507](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72507), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

- Fix Windows kube-proxy (winkernel) issue where stale RemoteEndpoints remained
  when a Deployment was referenced by multiple Services due to premature clearing

  }

  /**
   * Gets the value from an entry. Returns null if the entry is invalid, partially-collected,
   * loading, or expired. Unlike {@link Segment#getLiveValue} this method does not attempt to clean
   * up stale entries. As such it should only be called outside a segment context, such as during
   * iteration.
   */
  @Nullable V getLiveValue(ReferenceEntry<K, V> entry, long now) {
    if (entry.getKey() == null) {

* Fixes issue with cleaning up stale NFS subpath mounts ([#71804](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71804), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

- Fixes a rare race condition handling requests that timeout ([#107460](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107460), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Mount-utils: Detect potential stale file handle ([#107040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107040), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Fixed a bug in client-go where new clients with customized `Dial`, `Proxy`, `GetCert` config may get stale HTTP transports. ([#95427](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95427), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG API Machinery]

    * sync time.
 
    * The goal is for administrators to be able to alert on proxies that, for
    * whatever reason, are quite stale.
* Fix a string comparison bug in IPVS graceful termination where UDP real servers are not deleted. ([#78999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78999), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

  fix: ensure InstanceShutdownByProviderID return false for creating Azure VMs ([#104448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104448), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Kube-proxy: delete stale conntrack UDP entries for loadbalancer ingress IP. ([#104152](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104152), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network]

        V value = getLiveValue(entry);
        if (value != null) {
          nextExternal = new WriteThroughEntry(key, value);
          return true;
        } else {
          // Skip stale entry.
          return false;
        }
      } finally {
        currentSegment.postReadCleanup();
      }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean hasNext() {

    * unlock to run at that function's completion, following the normal
    * golang lock/deferred-unlock pattern.
* Avoid creating new controller revisions for statefulsets when cache is stale ([#67039](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67039), [@mortent](https://github.com/mortent))