* covariant, would still permit a plain `T[]`) and return a plain `T[]`. But of course that would
   * require its own suppression, since it is also unsound. toArray(T[]) is just a mess from a
   * nullness perspective. The signature below at least has the virtue of being relatively simple.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("nullness")
  public final <T extends @Nullable Object> T[] toArray(T[] other) {

- Fix invalid VMSS updates due to incorrect cache ([#89002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89002), [@ArchangelSDY](https://github.com/ArchangelSDY)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

  ### Azure
  - Add optional jitter on initial VMSS VM cache refresh, keep the refreshes spread over time
  - Serve from cache for the whole period of ongoing throttling
  - Fix unwanted VMSS VMs cache invalidation
  - Enforce setting the number of retries if cloud provider backoff is enabled
  - Don't update capacity if VMSS provisioning state is updating
  - Support allocatable resources overrides via VMSS tags

* Get public IP for Azure vmss nodes. ([#68498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68498), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* adjusted http/2 buffer sizes for apiservers to prevent starvation issues between concurrent streams ([#67902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67902), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

 *
 * @author Jared Levy
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 * @since 2.0 (implements {@code NavigableSet} since 12.0)
 */
// TODO(benyu): benchmark and optimize all creation paths, which are a mess now
@GwtCompatible(serializable = true, emulated = true)
@SuppressWarnings("serial") // we're overriding default serialization
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault

* azure: update disk lock logic per vm during attach/detach to allow concurrent updates for different nodes. ([#85115](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85115), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase))
* fix vmss dirty cache issue in disk attach/detach on vmss node ([#85158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85158), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Fix invalid VMSS updates due to incorrect cache ([#89002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89002), [@ArchangelSDY](https://github.com/ArchangelSDY)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix panic in kubelet when running IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack mode with a CNI plugin ([#82508](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82508), [@aanm](https://github.com/aanm)) [SIG Network and Node]

- Azure virtual machine scale sets (VMSS) allow you to create and manage identical load balanced VMs that automatically increase or decrease based on demand or a set schedule.

 *
 * @author Jared Levy
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 * @since 2.0 (implements {@code NavigableSet} since 12.0)
 */
// TODO(benyu): benchmark and optimize all creation paths, which are a mess now
@GwtCompatible(serializable = true, emulated = true)
@SuppressWarnings("serial") // we're overriding default serialization
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
public abstract class ImmutableSortedSet<E> extends ImmutableSet<E>

- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105185, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: leave the probe path empty for TCP probes (#105253, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: remove VMSS and VMSS instances from SLB backend pool only when necessary (#105839, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: skip instance not found when decoupling vmss from lb (#105666, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]