- Client-side apply will now use OpenAPI `v3` by default. ([#120707](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120707), [@Jefftree](https://github.com/Jefftree))
- Decoding etcd's response now respects the timeout context. ([#121614](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121614), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi))

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- Evicted and other terminated Pods will no longer revert to the `Running` phase. ([#105462](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105462), [@ehashman](https://github.com/ehashman))
- Fix `kube-apiserver` metric reporting for the deprecated watch path of `/api/<version>/watch/...`. ([#104161](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104161), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- The in-tree Azure plugin has been deprecated. The Azure kubelogin plugin serves as an out-of-tree replacement via the kubectl/client-go credential plugin mechanism.  Users will now see a warning in the logs regarding this deprecation. ([#107904](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107904), [@sabbey37](https://github.com/sabbey37))

* Fix aggressive VM calls for Azure VMSS ([#83102](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83102), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))