- Fixed vSphere cloud provider not to skip detach volumes from nodes at kube-controller-startup. ([#117243](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117243), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Kubeadm: explicitly set `priority` for static pods with `priorityClassName: system-node-critical` ([#119117](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119117), [@champtar](https://github.com/champtar)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Kubeadm: only taint control plane nodes when the legacy "master" taint is present. This avoids a bug where "kubeadm upgrade" will re-taint a control plane node with the new "control plane" taint even if the user explicitly untainted the node. ([#109841](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109841), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._