Kubernetes releases are now generating provenance attestation files describing the staging and release phases of the release process and artifacts are verified as they are handed over from one phase to the next.
This final piece completes the work needed to comply with Level 1 of the [SLSA security framework](https://slsa.dev/) (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts).

  
  ### Azure
  - Add optional jitter on initial VMSS VM cache refresh, keep the refreshes spread over time
  - Serve from cache for the whole period of ongoing throttling
  - Fix unwanted VMSS VMs cache invalidation
  - Enforce setting the number of retries if cloud provider backoff is enabled
  - Don't update capacity if VMSS provisioning state is updating