* skip nodes that have a primary NIC in a 'Failed' provisioningState ([#65412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65412), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))
* Fix 'kubectl cp' with no arguments causes a panic ([#65482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65482), [@wgliang](https://github.com/wgliang))

### Bug or Regression

- Fixed an issue in `winkernel` proxier that causes proxy rules to leak anytime service backends are modified. ([#112837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112837), [@daschott](https://github.com/daschott))

### Apps

- Fix a bug that pods not be deleted from unmatched nodes by daemon controller ([#78974](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78974), [@DaiHao](https://github.com/DaiHao))
- Fix a bug that causes DaemonSet rolling update hang when there exist failed pods. ([#78170](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78170), [@DaiHao](https://github.com/DaiHao))

### Auth

- Fixed bug where Server Side Apply causes spurious resourceVersion bumps on no-op patches to custom resources. ([#125263](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125263), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Fix an issue with `kubectl` on certain older version of Windows or when legacy console mode is enabled on Windows 8 which causes `kubectl exec` to crash. ([#102825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102825), [@n4j](https://github.com/n4j))

- If using cgroups v2, then the cgroup aware OOM killer will be enabled for container cgroups via  `memory.oom.group` .  This causes processes within the cgroup to be treated as a unit and killed simultaneously in the event of an OOM kill on any process in the cgroup. ([#117793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117793), [@tzneal](https://github.com/tzneal)) [SIG Apps,...

- Fix endpoint reconciler not being able to delete the apiserver lease on shutdown ([#114137](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114137), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Resolves an issue that causes winkernel proxier to treat stale VIPs as valid ([#113558](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113558), [@daschott](https://github.com/daschott)) [SIG Network and Windows]

- Resolves an issue that causes winkernel proxier to treat stale VIPs as valid ([#113567](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113567), [@daschott](https://github.com/daschott)) [SIG Network and Windows]

* Fixed a bug which is causes kube-apiserver to not run without specifying service-cluster-ip-range ([#52870](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52870), [@jennybuckley](https://github.com/jennybuckley))