- Fix availability set cache in vmss cache ([#100110](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100110), [@CecileRobertMichon](https://github.com/CecileRobertMichon)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix how nulls are handled in array and objects in [json patches](https://github.com/evanphx/json-patch). ([#102467](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102467), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

- Fixed a rare race condition handling requests that timeout. ([#107452](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107452), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
- Fixed a regression in 1.23 that incorrectly pruned data from array items of a custom resource that set `x-kubernetes-preserve-unknown-fields: true`. ([#107688](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107688), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* API fields that previously serialized null arrays as `null` and empty arrays as `[]` no longer distinguish between those values and always output `[]` when serializing to JSON. ([#43422](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43422), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Fix empty array expansion error in cluster/gce/util.sh ([#76111](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76111), [@kewu1992](https://github.com/kewu1992))

* Support vSphere SAML token auth when using Zones ([#75515](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75515), [@dougm](https://github.com/dougm))
* Fix empty array expansion error in cluster/gce/util.sh ([#76111](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76111), [@kewu1992](https://github.com/kewu1992))

  * Strategic Merge Patch

    * Reference docs now display the patch type and patch merge key used by `kubectl apply` to merge and identify unique elements in arrays.

      * `kubectl edit` and `kubectl apply` will keep the ordering of elements in merged lists ([#45980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45980), [@mengqiy](https://github.com/mengqiy))