- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in reconcileBackendPools ([#103997](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103997), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: return empty VMAS name if using standalone VM ([#103470](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103470), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* Fix the bug where kubelet in the standalone mode would wait for the update from the apiserver source, even if there wasn't one. ([#59276](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59276), [@roboll](https://github.com/roboll))

        package.
    *   Support configuring TPU software version from cloud tpu client.
    *   Allowed TPU embedding weight decay factor to be multiplied by learning
        rate.
*   XLA Support:
    *   Add standalone XLA AOT runtime target + relevant .cc sources to pip
        package.
    *   Add check for memory alignment to MemoryAllocation::MemoryAllocation()

- Fix: display of Job completion mode in `kubectl describe`. ([#101160](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101160), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))
- Fix: return empty VMAS name if using standalone VM ([#103470](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103470), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* Fix panic logspam when running kubelet in standalone mode. ([#77888](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77888), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))

- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in reconcileBackendPools ([#103997](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103997), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: return empty VMAS name if using standalone VM ([#103470](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103470), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Kubelet: fixed log spam from kubelet_getters.go `Path does not exist`. ([#112650](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112650), [@rphillips](https://github.com/rphillips))
- Kubelet: fixed nil pointer in reflector start for standalone mode. ([#113501](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113501), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

* Node Problem Detector is beta now. New features added: journald support, standalone mode and arbitrary system log monitoring. ([#40206](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40206), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))

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## Changelog since v1.7.1

### Other notable changes

* Use port 20256 for node-problem-detector in standalone mode. ([#49316](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49316), [@ajitak](https://github.com/ajitak))