- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.22.12 ([#130077](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130077), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix missing "apiVersion" for "involvedObject" in Events for Nodes. ([#87537](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87537), [@uthark](https://github.com/uthark)) [SIG Apps and Node]
- Fix nil pointer dereference in azure cloud provider ([#85975](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85975), [@ldx](https://github.com/ldx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### Other notable changes

* Fixed a regression where the kubelet would fail to update the ready status of pods. ([#86191](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86191), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))
* Fix nil pointer dereference in azure cloud provider ([#85975](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85975), [@ldx](https://github.com/ldx))

- Ignore context canceled from validate and mutate webhook ([#120155](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120155), [@divyasri537](https://github.com/divyasri537)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Kubeadm: fix nil pointer when etcd member is already removed ([#120010](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120010), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## Dependencies

### Added

- `kubeadm`: fixed `nil` pointer when `etcd` member is already removed. ([#119753](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119753), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- `kubeadm`: fixed the bug where `--image-repository` flag is missing for some init

- Fix: avoid nil-pointer panic when checking the frontend IP configuration ([#101739](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101739), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

pkg sync/atomic, func LoadPointer(*unsafe.Pointer) unsafe.Pointer
pkg sync/atomic, func LoadUint32(*uint32) uint32
pkg sync/atomic, func LoadUint64(*uint64) uint64
pkg sync/atomic, func LoadUintptr(*uintptr) uintptr
pkg sync/atomic, func StoreInt32(*int32, int32)
pkg sync/atomic, func StoreInt64(*int64, int64)
pkg sync/atomic, func StorePointer(*unsafe.Pointer, unsafe.Pointer)
pkg sync/atomic, func StoreUint32(*uint32, uint32)

- Fix: avoid nil-pointer panic when checking the frontend IP configuration ([#101739](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101739), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Ignore context canceled from validate and mutate webhook ([#120017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120017), [@divyasri537](https://github.com/divyasri537)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Kubeadm: fix nil pointer when etcd member is already removed ([#120013](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120013), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Fix kubectl create secret docker-registry --from-file not usable ([#90960](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90960), [@zhouya0](https://github.com/zhouya0)) [SIG CLI and Testing]
- Fix kubectl describe CSINode nil pointer error ([#89646](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89646), [@zhouya0](https://github.com/zhouya0)) [SIG CLI]