- Reduce vSphere volume name to 63 characters ([#100404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100404), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage]

- GCE/Windows: When the service cannot be stopped Stackdriver logging processes are now force killed ([#77378](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77378), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))
- Reduced GCE log rotation check from 1 hour to every 5 minutes.  Rotation policy is unchanged (new day starts, log file size > 100MB). ([#76352](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76352), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

* Allows changing nodeName in endpoint update. ([#68575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68575), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj))
* Reduced excessive logging from fluentd-gcp-scaler. ([#68837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68837), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))

//     Some of the Veeam products use Multi Delete operations. This setting can reduce how many objects are included in one
//     multi-delete operation. The same registry key setting overwrites the storage-defined setting.
//     Optional value, default 1000, range: 1-unlimited (S3 standard maximum is 1000 and should not be set higher)
//
//   - <StorageConcurrentTasksLimit>

 - Provides a fix to allow a cluster in a private Azure cloud to authenticate to ACR in the same cloud. ([#90425](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90425), [@DavidParks8](https://github.com/DavidParks8)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
 - Reduced frequency of DescribeVolumes calls of AWS API when attaching/detaching a volume.

   * following conditions:
   *
   * <ul>
   *   <li>You want to assign the same fraction of inputs to each bucket.
   *   <li>When you reduce the number of buckets, you can accept that the most recently added
   *       buckets will be removed first. More concretely, if you are dividing traffic among tasks,

- Scores from PodTopologySpreading have reduced differentiation as maxSkew increases. ([#90820](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90820), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Provide IPv6 support for internal load balancer. ([#103794](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103794), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))
- Reduce the number of calls to docker for stats via dockershim. For Windows this reduces the latency when calling docker, for Linux this saves cpu cycles. ([#104287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104287), [@jsturtevant](https://github.com/jsturtevant)) [SIG Node and Windows]

    assertEquals(0, client.connectionPool.connectionCount())

    // Force reuse. This appears flaky (30% of the time) even though sessions are reused.
    // javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: No new session is allowed and no existing
    // session can be resumed
    //
    // Report https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=JDK-8264944

 *
 * <p><dfn>Dependency collection</dfn> builds a graph of {@link org.apache.maven.api.Node} objects containing
 * all the dependencies.</p>
 *
 * <p>The <dfn>Dependency graph flattening</dfn> process in Maven reduces a complex,
 * multi-level dependency graph to a map of ordered lists that can be turned into classpaths.
 * During this process only the most relevant version of each artifact