* Improve Azure instance metadata handling by adding caches. ([#70353](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70353), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* adding cn-northwest-1 for AWS China Ningxia region ([#70155](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70155), [@pahud](https://github.com/pahud))

  
  Portworx CSI driver is required to enable migration.
  This PR adds support of the `CSIMigrationPortworx` feature gate, which can be enabled by:
  
  1. Adding the feature flag to the kube-controller-manager `--feature-gates=CSIMigrationPortworx=true` 
  2. Adding the feature flag to the kubelet config:
  
  featureGates:

### Container Images

All container images are available as manifest lists and support the described
architectures. It is also possible to pull a specific architecture directly by
adding the "-$ARCH" suffix  to the container image name.

name | architectures
---- | -------------

### Container Images

All container images are available as manifest lists and support the described
architectures. It is also possible to pull a specific architecture directly by
adding the "-$ARCH" suffix  to the container image name.

name | architectures
---- | -------------

### Container Images

All container images are available as manifest lists and support the described
architectures. It is also possible to pull a specific architecture directly by
adding the "-$ARCH" suffix  to the container image name.

name | architectures
---- | -------------

Troubleshoot workloads that crash on startup by creating a copy of the pod that uses a different container image or command.
Troubleshoot distroless containers by adding a new container with debugging tools, either in a new copy of the pod or using an ephemeral container. (Ephemeral containers are an alpha feature that are not enabled by default.)

## Testing

- Fix pod list return value of `framework.WaitForPodsWithLabelRunningReady` ([#78687](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78687), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))
- Adding `TerminationGracePeriodSeconds` to the test framework API ([#82170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82170), [@vivekbagade](https://github.com/vivekbagade))

### ConfigMap
* Volumes and environment variables populated from ConfigMap and Secret objects can now tolerate the named source object or specific keys being missing, by adding `optional: true` to the volume or environment variable source specifications. ([#39981](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39981), [@fraenkel](https://github.com/fraenkel))

    - kubeadm: implemented CRI detection for Windows worker nodes ([#78053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78053), [@ksubrmnn](https://github.com/ksubrmnn))
- Worked toward support for Windows Server version 1903, including adding Windows support for preserving the destination IP as the VIP when loadbalancing with DSR. ([#74825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74825), [@ksubrmnn](https://github.com/ksubrmnn))

- `kube-apiserver` added: