### Bug or Regression

- Avoid GCE API calls when initializing GCE CloudProvider for Kubelets.
  Avoid unnecessary GCE API calls when adding IP alises or reflecting them in Node object in GCE cloud provider. ([#96863](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96863), [@tosi3k](https://github.com/tosi3k)) [SIG Apps, Cloud Provider and Network]

 - Newly provisioned PVs by gce-pd will no longer have the beta FailureDomain label. gce-pd volume plugin will start to have GA topology label instead. ([#98700](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98700), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Storage and Testing]

         * with `// CONSOLE`. In the exceptionally rare cases where they are
         * not communicating with Elasticsearch, like the examples in the ec2
         * and gce discovery plugins, the snippets should be marked
         * `// NOTCONSOLE`. */
        return snippet.language == 'js' || snippet.curl
    }

    /**

- Bumped addon-manager to v8.8 ([#69337](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69337), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))
- GCE: Filter out spammy audit logs from cluster autoscaler. ([#70696](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70696), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))
- GCE: Enable by default audit logging truncating backend. ([#68288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68288), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

		expectedMode RetMode
	}{
		{
			value:        "governance",
			expectedMode: RetGovernance,
		},
		{
			value:        "complIAnce",
			expectedMode: RetCompliance,
		},
		{
			value:        "gce",
			expectedMode: "",
		},
	}

	for _, tc := range testCases {
		if parseRetMode(tc.value) != tc.expectedMode {
			t.Errorf("Expected Mode %s, got %s", tc.expectedMode, parseRetMode(tc.value))
		}
	}
}

- Avoid GCE API calls when initializing GCE CloudProvider for Kubelets. ([#90218](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90218), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Scalability]

- GCE Windows clusters have their TCP/IP parameters are set to GCE's recommended values. ([#103057](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103057), [@jeremyje](https://github.com/jeremyje)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Windows]

folks who want the fairly language neutral ICU analyzer but the library to
implement the analyzer is 11MB so we don't ship it with Elasticsearch by
default.

Another example is the `discovery-gce` plugin. It is *vital* to folks running
in [GCP](https://cloud.google.com/) but useless otherwise and it depends on a
dozen extra jars.

#### `qa`

  - Add support for `--cloud-config`
  - Update group identifier to use for Cluster API annotations
  
  ### Exoscale
  - Add support for Exoscale
  
  ### GCE
  - Decrease the number of GCE Read Requests made while deleting nodes
  - Base pricing of custom instances on their instance family type
  - Add pricing information for missing machine types

### Promoted CSI Ephemeral Volume to Stable