- Fix availability set cache in vmss cache ([#100110](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100110), [@CecileRobertMichon](https://github.com/CecileRobertMichon)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- New `KUBECACHEDIR` environment variable was introduced to override default discovery cache directory which is `$HOME/.kube/cache`. ([#109479](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109479), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.27+ regression in watch stability by serving watch requests without a resourceVersion from the watch cache by default, as in <1.27 (disabling the change in #115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in #115096 to serve these requests from underlying storage is still...

  - Regenerate list of EC2 instances
  - Fix pricing endpoint in AWS China Region
  
  ### 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 invalidations
  - Enforce setting the number of retries if cloud provider backoff is enabled
  - Don't update capacity if VMSS provisioning state is updating

* Add necessary header files in the aar library. These are needed if developers build apps with header files unpacked from tflite aar files from maven.
* Implement Name() for GCSWritableFile to fix the profiler trace viewer cache file generation.
* Fix `cstring.h` missing file issue with the Libtensorflow archive.

# Release 2.17.0

## TensorFlow

### Breaking Changes

* GPU

  // This can be used to provide different probe parameters at the beginning of a Pod's lifecycle,
  // when it might take a long time to load data or warm a cache, than during steady-state operation.
  // This cannot be updated.
  // More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/pods/pod-lifecycle#container-probes
  // +optional
  optional Probe startupProbe = 22;

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- Setting a mirror pod's phase to Succeeded or Failed can prevent the corresponding static pod from restarting due mutation of a Kubelet cache. ([#116482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116482), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node]

      NavigableMap<K, V> synchronizedNavigableMap(NavigableMap<K, V> navigableMap) {
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  /**
   * {@code AbstractMap} extension that makes it easy to cache customized keySet, values, and
   * entrySet views.
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