* fix parse devicePath issue on Azure Disk ([#74499](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74499), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* kubeadm: fixed nil pointer dereference caused by a bug in url parsing ([#74454](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74454), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))

* Pod affinity `nodeSelectorTerm.matchExpressions` may now be empty, and works as previously documented: nil or empty `matchExpressions` matches no objects in scheduler. ([#62448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62448), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Fixes bug in CronJob Controller V2 where it would lose track of jobs upon job template labels change. ([#107997](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107997), [@d-honeybadger](https://github.com/d-honeybadger))
- If drainer has nil for Ctx or Client it will error with `RunCordonOrUncordon`. ([#105297](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105297), [@jackfrancis](https://github.com/jackfrancis))