* Address a bug which allowed the horizontal pod autoscaler to allocate `desiredReplicas` > `maxReplicas` in certain instances. ([#53690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53690), [@mattjmcnaughton](https://github.com/mattjmcnaughton))

* If a pod has a running instance, the stats of its previously terminated instances will not show up in the kubelet summary stats any more for CRI runtimes like containerd and cri-o. ([#77426](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77426), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))

*   Fixed a bug that allowed the horizontal pod autoscaler to allocate more `desiredReplica` objects than `maxReplica` objects in certain instances. ([#53690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53690),[ @mattjmcnaughton](https://github.com/mattjmcnaughton))

### **AWS**

*   Nodes can now use instance types (such as C5) that use NVMe. ([#56607](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56607), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))

 - Fix: support removal of nodes backed by deleted non VMSS instances on Azure ([#91184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91184), [@bpineau](https://github.com/bpineau)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Azure: Avoid setting cached Sku when updating VMSS and VMSS instances. ([#102005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102005), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

 - Fix: support removal of nodes backed by deleted non VMSS instances on Azure ([#91184](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91184), [@bpineau](https://github.com/bpineau)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- [`KT-60528`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-60528) Updates for JVM/IR backend of kotlin-atomicfu-compiler-plugin
- [`KT-59558`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-59558) Add support for creating annotation instances with type parameters
- [`KT-52367`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-52367) Devirtualization algorithm improvement

- Fix: remove VMSS and VMSS instances from SLB backend pool only when necessary ([#105839](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105839), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))
- Fix: skip `instance not found` when decoupling VMSSs from LB ([#105666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105666), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))

- Fixed a regression in the pod binding subresource to honor the `metadata.uid` precondition.
  This allows kube-scheduler to ensure it is assigns node names to the same instances of pods it made scheduling decisions for. ([#116550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116550), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))

* Address a bug which allowed the horizontal pod autoscaler to allocate `desiredReplicas` > `maxReplicas` in certain instances. ([#53690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53690), [@mattjmcnaughton](https://github.com/mattjmcnaughton))