- Fixes an issue where you can't attach more than 15 GCE Persistent Disks to c2, n2, m1, m2 machine types. ([#88602](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88602), [@yuga711](https://github.com/yuga711)) [SIG Storage]

In addition, support for NVMe disks has been added to Kubernetes, and a service of type LoadBalancer can now be backed with an NLB instead of an ELB (alpha).

### Azure

* Add subPath to mount a child dir or file of a volumeMount ([#22575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/22575), [@MikaelCluseau](https://github.com/MikaelCluseau))
* Handle image digests in node status and image GC ([#25088](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/25088), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc))

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#### Azure
* Fix failing load balancers in Azure ([#40405](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40405), [@codablock](https://github.com/codablock))
* Reduce time needed to attach Azure disks ([#40066](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40066), [@codablock](https://github.com/codablock))

- Kubeadm: remove the CoreDNS check for known image digests when applying the addon ([#94506](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94506), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

* Bump GCE ContainerVM to container-vm-v20170201 to address CVE-2016-9962. ([#40828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40828), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* Reduce time needed to attach Azure disks ([#40066](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40066), [@codablock](https://github.com/codablock))

	    * zone is the target zone (Will be "<n/a>" if not applicable)

	    * Note: this fixes some issues with the previous implementation of metrics for disks:

	      * Time duration tracked was of the initial API call, not the entire operation.

	      * Metrics label tuple would have resulted in many independent histograms stored, one for each disk. (Did not aggregate well).

- Fixes issue where you can't attach more than 15 GCE Persistent Disks to c2, n2, m1, m2 machine types. ([#88602](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88602), [@yuga711](https://github.com/yuga711)) [SIG Storage]

- Fixes issue where you can't attach more than 15 GCE Persistent Disks to c2, n2, m1, m2 machine types. ([#88602](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88602), [@yuga711](https://github.com/yuga711)) [SIG Storage]