- Fixes a 1.34 regression starting pods with environment variables with a value containing `$` followed by a multi-byte character ([#136491](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/136491), [@AutuSnow](https://github.com/AutuSnow)) [SIG Architecture and Node]

- Fixes a 1.34 regression starting pods with environment variables with a value containing `$` followed by a multi-byte character ([#136325](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/136325), [@AutuSnow](https://github.com/AutuSnow)) [SIG Architecture]

- In text format, log messages that previously used quoting to prevent multi-line output (for example, text="some \"quotation\", a\nline break") will now be printed with more readable multi-line output without the escape sequences. ([#107103](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107103), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

* Substitute gcloud regex with regexp ([#35346](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35346), [@bprashanth](https://github.com/bprashanth))
* Remove support for multi-architecture code in `kubeadm`, which was released untested. ([#35124](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35124), [@errordeveloper](https://github.com/errordeveloper))

- Openstack: Do not delete managed LB in case of security group reconciliation errors ([#82264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82264), [@multi-io](https://github.com/multi-io)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

    - [Container Runtime Interface (CRI) v1 is default](#container-runtime-interface-cri-v1-is-default)
    - [Structured logging graduate to Beta](#structured-logging-graduate-to-beta)
    - [Simplified Multi-point plugin configuration for scheduler](#simplified-multi-point-plugin-configuration-for-scheduler)
    - [CSI Migration updates](#csi-migration-updates)
  - [Urgent Upgrade Notes](#urgent-upgrade-notes)

- Fixed use of webhook admission plugins with multi-version custom resources ([#74154](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74154), [@mbohlool](https://github.com/mbohlool))

### AWS

- Fix repeatedly acquire the inhibit lock ([#98088](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98088), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]
- Fixed bug that caused cAdvisor to incorrectly detect single-socket multi-NUMA topology. ([#99207](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99207), [@iwankgb](https://github.com/iwankgb)) [SIG Node]

* Support KUBE_MAX_PD_VOLS on Azure ([#41398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41398), [@codablock](https://github.com/codablock))
* Mark multi-scheduler graduation to beta and then v1. ([#38871](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38871), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

- Fixed bug that caused cAdvisor to incorrectly detect single-socket multi-NUMA topology. ([#99209](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99209), [@iwankgb](https://github.com/iwankgb)) [SIG Node]