- Fix bug in JSON path parser where an error occurs when a range is empty ([#95933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95933), [@brianpursley](https://github.com/brianpursley)) [SIG API Machinery]

* fix mount unmount failure for a Windows pod ([#63272](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63272), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix for resourcepool-path configuration in the vsphere.conf file. ([#66261](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66261), [@divyenpatel](https://github.com/divyenpatel))

    *  - Created new GCE_SSH_KEY allowing specification of SSH keys for gce, gke, and kubemark.
    *  - AWS_SSH_KEY, previously assumed to be an absolute path can now be either relative or absolute

- Ingress:
  - `spec.ingressClassName` replaces the deprecated `kubernetes.io/ingress.class` annotation, and allows associating an Ingress object with a particular controller.

- Fixed `DaemonSet` to update the status even if it fails to create a pod. ([#113787](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113787), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42))
- Fixed `SELinux` label for host path volumes created by host path provisioner ([#112021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112021), [@mrunalp](https://github.com/mrunalp))

* PodSpecs containing parent directory references such as `..` (for example, `../bar`) in hostPath volume path or in volumeMount subpaths must be changed to the simple absolute path. Backsteps `..` are no longer allowed.([#47290](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47290), [@jhorwit2](https://github.com/jhorwit2)).


### API Machinery

- Fix memory leak on kube-scheduler preemption ([#111805](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111805), [@amewayne](https://github.com/amewayne)) [SIG Scheduling]
- If the parent directory of the file specified in the `--audit-log-path` argument does not exist, Kubernetes now creates it. ([#111227](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111227), [@vpnachev](https://github.com/vpnachev)) [SIG Auth]

- Disable aufs module for gce clusters ([#103831](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103831), [@lizhuqi](https://github.com/lizhuqi)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix kube-apiserver metric reporting for the deprecated watch path of /api/<version>/watch/... ([#104190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104190), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]

* fix azure file plugin failure issue on Windows after node restart ([#60625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60625), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Get parent dir via canonical absolute path when trying to judge mount-point ([#58433](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58433), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882))

- Updated the CRI-O socket path, so users who configure kubelet to use a location like `/run/crio/crio.sock` don't see strange behaviour from CRI stats provider. ([#118704](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118704), [@dgl](https://github.com/dgl))