Besides the above new features, support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) and Cluster-Autoscaler is now stable and considered GA:

- Azure virtual machine scale sets (VMSS) allow you to create and manage identical load balanced VMs that automatically increase or decrease based on demand or a set schedule.

- `kubectl wait` ensures that observedGeneration >= generation to prevent stale state reporting. An example scenario can be found on CRD updates. ([#97408](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97408), [@KnicKnic](https://github.com/KnicKnic))

### Documentation

  - 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
  - Support allocatable resources overrides via VMSS tags
  - Add missing stable labels in template nodes
  - Proactively set instance status to deleting on node deletions
  
  ### Cluster API

- kubelet: Fix - the volume manager didn't check the device mount state in the actual state of the world before marking the volume as detached. It may cause a pod to be stuck in the Terminating state due to the above issue when it was deleted. ([#128219](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128219), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

  }

  /**
   * Gets the value from an entry. Returns null if the entry is invalid, partially-collected,
   * loading, or expired. Unlike {@link Segment#getLiveValue} this method does not attempt to clean
   * up stale entries. As such it should only be called outside a segment context, such as during
   * iteration.
   */
  @Nullable V getLiveValue(ReferenceEntry<K, V> entry, long now) {
    if (entry.getKey() == null) {

func TestListObjectPartsStale(t *testing.T) {
	ExecObjectLayerDiskAlteredTest(t, testListObjectPartsStale)
}

// testListObjectPartsStale - Tests validate listing of object parts when parts are stale
func testListObjectPartsStale(obj ObjectLayer, instanceType string, disks []string, t *testing.T) {
	bucketNames := []string{"minio-bucket", "minio-2-bucket"}
	objectNames := []string{"minio-object-1.txt"}

        V value = getLiveValue(entry);
        if (value != null) {
          nextExternal = new WriteThroughEntry(key, value);
          return true;
        } else {
          // Skip stale entry.
          return false;
        }
      } finally {
        currentSegment.postReadCleanup();
      }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean hasNext() {

- Fixed a bug in client-go where new clients with customized `Dial`, `Proxy`, `GetCert` config may get stale HTTP transports. ([#95427](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95427), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw)) [SIG API Machinery]

        V value = getLiveValue(entry);
        if (value != null) {
          nextExternal = new WriteThroughEntry(key, value);
          return true;
        } else {
          // Skip stale entry.
          return false;
        }
      } finally {
        currentSegment.postReadCleanup();
      }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean hasNext() {

- Fixed a regression introduced in 1.22.4 where Azure load balancers were not kept up to date with the state of cluster nodes. In particular, nodes that are not in the ready state and are not newly created (i.e. not having the `node.cloudprovider.kubernetes.io/uninitialized` taint) now get removed from Azure load balancers. ([#109933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109933),...