* OpenSSL CVE fixes
* ContainerVm/GCI image: try to use ifdown/ifup if available ([#33595](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33595), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))
* Make the informer library available for the go client library. ([#32718](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32718), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese))

* [alpha] Make locally attached (non-network attached) storage available as a persistent volume source. For more information, see [Storage Volumes - local](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#local).

#### Volume Plugins

* [stable] Expose storage usage metrics

  * The available capacity of a given Persistent Volume (PV) is available by calling the Kubernetes metrics API.

* [stable] Volume plugin metrics

    * Change chain name to IP-MASQ to be compatible with the pre-injected masquerade rules.
* If `TaintNodesByCondition` is enabled, add `node.kubernetes.io/unschedulable` and `node.kubernetes.io/network-unavailable` automatically to DaemonSet pods. ([#64954](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64954), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

- Fix bug that would let the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler scale down despite at least one metric being unavailable/invalid ([#99514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99514), [@mikkeloscar](https://github.com/mikkeloscar)) [SIG Apps and Autoscaling]

- Kubeadm: improved retries when updating node information, in case `kube-apiserver` is temporarily unavailable ([#114176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114176), [@QuantumEnergyE](https://github.com/QuantumEnergyE))

- Fixed error "dbus: connection closed by user" after dbus daemon restarts. ([#110496](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110496), [@kolyshkin](https://github.com/kolyshkin))
- Fixed image pull failure when `IMDS` is unavailable in kubelet startup. ([#110523](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110523), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Make STS available replicas optional again, ([#109241](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109241), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]

*   Azure NSG rules can be consolidated to reduce the likelihood of hitting Azure resource limits (available only in regions where the Augmented Security Groups preview is available).  ([#55740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55740), [@itowlson](https://github.com/itowlson))

- Removed the generally available feature gate `ExpandedDNSConfig`.
   ([#122086](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122086), [@bzsuni](https://github.com/bzsuni))
- Removed the generally available feature gate `KubeletPodResourcesGetAllocatable`.
   ([#122138](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122138), [@ii2day](https://github.com/ii2day))
- Removed the generally available feature gate `KubeletPodResources`.