- Ignore context canceled from validate and mutate webhook ([#120019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120019), [@divyasri537](https://github.com/divyasri537)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Kubeadm: fix nil pointer when etcd member is already removed ([#120012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120012), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

* fix parse devicePath issue on Azure Disk ([#74499](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74499), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* kubeadm: fixed nil pointer dereference caused by a bug in url parsing ([#74454](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74454), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))

### Bug or Regression

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* Pod affinity `nodeSelectorTerm.matchExpressions` may now be empty, and works as previously documented: nil or empty `matchExpressions` matches no objects in scheduler. ([#62448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62448), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

- Fixed node lifecycle controller panic when conditionType ready is been patch `nil` by mistake. ([#122874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122874), [@fusida](https://github.com/fusida))

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Fixes bug in CronJob Controller V2 where it would lose track of jobs upon job template labels change. ([#107997](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107997), [@d-honeybadger](https://github.com/d-honeybadger))
- If drainer has nil for Ctx or Client it will error with `RunCordonOrUncordon`. ([#105297](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105297), [@jackfrancis](https://github.com/jackfrancis))

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Fixes a 1.33 regression that can cause a nil panic in kube-scheduler when aggregating resource requests across container's spec and status. ([#133285](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133285), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882)) [SIG Node and Scheduling]