- Kubeadm: fix panic in the command "kubeadm certs check-expiration" when "/etc/kubernetes/pki" exists but cannot be read. ([#124124](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124124), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]
- NONE ([#124325](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124325), [@ritazh](https://github.com/ritazh)) [SIG Auth]

## Dependencies

    - [SIG Auth](#sig-auth)
    - [SIG Autoscaling](#sig-autoscaling-1)
    - [SIG AWS](#sig-aws)
    - [SIG Azure](#sig-azure-1)
    - [SIG CLI](#sig-cli-1)
    - [SIG Cloud Provider](#sig-cloud-provider-1)
    - [SIG Cluster Lifecycle](#sig-cluster-lifecycle-1)
    - [SIG GCP](#sig-gcp)
    - [SIG Instrumentation](#sig-instrumentation-1)
    - [SIG Network](#sig-network)
    - [SIG Node](#sig-node-1)

    - [SIG Auth](#sig-auth-1)
    - [SIG Autoscaling](#sig-autoscaling)
    - [SIG AWS](#sig-aws-1)
    - [SIG Azure](#sig-azure-1)
    - [SIG CLI](#sig-cli-1)
    - [SIG Cloud Provider](#sig-cloud-provider-1)
    - [SIG Cluster Lifecycle](#sig-cluster-lifecycle-1)
    - [SIG GCP](#sig-gcp)
    - [SIG Network](#sig-network-1)
    - [SIG Node](#sig-node-1)
    - [SIG OpenStack](#sig-openstack-1)

- Fix: resize Azure disk issue when it's in attached state ([#96705](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96705), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fixed kubelet creating extra sandbox for pods with RestartPolicyOnFailure after all containers succeeded ([#92614](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92614), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- Fix uint64 overflow when elapsed ([#94038](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94038), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Node and Windows]
- Fix: incorrect max azure disk max count ([#92331](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92331), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

  - [Major Themes](#major-themes)
    - [SIG API Machinery](#sig-api-machinery)
    - [SIG Auth](#sig-auth)
    - [SIG CLI](#sig-cli)
    - [SIG Cluster Lifecycle](#sig-cluster-lifecycle)
    - [SIG Instrumentation](#sig-instrumentation)
    - [SIG Network](#sig-network)
    - [SIG Node](#sig-node)
    - [SIG OpenStack](#sig-openstack)
    - [SIG Scheduling](#sig-scheduling)
    - [SIG Storage](#sig-storage)
    - [SIG Windows](#sig-windows)

  - [Major Themes](#major-themes)
    - [SIG API Machinery](#sig-api-machinery)
    - [SIG Apps](#sig-apps)
    - [SIG Auth](#sig-auth)
    - [SIG Autoscaling](#sig-autoscaling)
    - [SIG Cluster Lifecycle](#sig-cluster-lifecycle)
    - [SIG Instrumentation](#sig-instrumentation)
    - [SIG Multi-cluster (formerly known as SIG Federation)](#sig-multi-cluster-formerly-known-as-sig-federation)
    - [SIG Node](#sig-node)

  // Standard object's metadata.
  // More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#metadata
  // +optional
  optional k8s.io.apimachinery.pkg.apis.meta.v1.ObjectMeta metadata = 1;

  // Spec defines the limits enforced.
  // More info: https://git.k8s.io/community/contributors/devel/sig-architecture/api-conventions.md#spec-and-status
  // +optional
  optional LimitRangeSpec spec = 2;

- Fixed an issue that could cause the kubelet to incorrectly run concurrent pod reconciliation loops and crash. ([#89055](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89055), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu)) [SIG Node]
- Fixes conversion error for HorizontalPodAutoscaler objects with invalid annotations ([#89969](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89969), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Autoscaling]

### Instrumentation

In v1.9 we focused on improving stability of the components owned by the SIG, including Heapster, Custom Metrics API adapters for Prometheus, and Stackdriver.

### Network