- Fix: remove VMSS and VMSS instances from SLB backend pool only when necessary ([#105839](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105839), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))
- Fix: skip `instance not found` when decoupling VMSSs from LB ([#105666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105666), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))

     * @throws ConfigPropertyNotFoundException When the property is not found.
     */
    String get(String propertyKey);

    /**
     * Is the property true?
     * @param propertyKey The key of the property which is boolean type. (NotNull)
     * @return The determination, true or false. (if not found, exception)
     * @throws ConfigPropertyNotFoundException When the property is not found.
     */

  - Services that have been set to IPFamilyPolicy = PreferDualstack will be upgraded when the service object is updated. e.g., when a user change a label.
  
  This behavior will change to:

- Fix: skip case sensitivity when checking Azure NSG rules
  fix: ensure InstanceShutdownByProviderID return false for creating Azure VMs ([#104447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104447), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fixed occasional pod cgroup freeze when using cgroup v1 and systemd driver.

- Warn instead of fail when creating Roles and ClusterRoles with custom verbs via kubectl ([#92492](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92492), [@eddiezane](https://github.com/eddiezane)) [SIG CLI]

    * when updating a service or when node changes occur.
* Allow for watching objects larger than 1MB given etcd accepts objects of size up to 1.5MB ([#72053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72053), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Sometimes, the scheduler incorrectly placed a pod in the "unschedulable" queue instead of the "backoff" queue. This happened when some plugin previously declared the pod as "unschedulable" and then in a later attempt encounters some other error. Scheduling of that pod then got delayed by up to five minutes, after which periodic flushing moved the pod back into the "active" queue. ([#120334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120334), ...

systems, a mounter's Unmount implementation is changed to not return an error when the specified target can be detected as not a mount point. On Linux, the behavior of detecting a mount point depends on `umount` command is validated when the mounter is created. Additionally, mount point checks will be skipped in CleanupMountPoint/CleanupMountWithForce if the mounter's Unmount having the changed behavior of not returning error when target is not a mount point. ([#109676](https://github.com/kubernetes/k...

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