- google.golang.org/protobuf: v1.24.0
- gotest.tools/v3: v3.0.2
- k8s.io/klog/v2: v2.2.0

### Changed
- cloud.google.com/go: v0.38.0 → v0.51.0
- github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go: [v35.0.0+incompatible → v43.0.0+incompatible](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/compare/v35.0.0...v43.0.0)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal: [v0.5.0 → v0.8.2](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal/compare/v0.5.0...v0.8.2)

*   Additional annotations are now properly set or updated  for AWS load balancers ([#55731](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55731),[ @georgebuckerfield](https://github.com/georgebuckerfield))
*   AWS SDK is updated to version 1.12.7 ([#53561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53561),[ @justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))

### **Azure**

- Added `kubelet_node_name` metrics. ([#72910](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72910), [@danielqsj](https://github.com/danielqsj))
- Updated AWS SDK to v1.16.26 for ECR PrivateLink support ([#73435](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73435), [@micahhausler](https://github.com/micahhausler))

- github.com/hashicorp/consul/api: [v1.1.0](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/api/v1.1.0)
- github.com/hashicorp/consul/sdk: [v0.1.1](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/tree/sdk/v0.1.1)
- github.com/hashicorp/errwrap: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/hashicorp/errwrap/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/hashicorp/go-cleanhttp: [v0.5.1](https://github.com/hashicorp/go-cleanhttp/tree/v0.5.1)

- \API calls for Azure instance metadata have been reduced to help avoid "too many requests" errors.. ([#67478](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67478), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
- Azure Go SDK has been upgraded to v19.0.0 and VirtualMachineScaleSetVM now supports availability zones. ([#66648](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66648), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- cloud.google.com/go/firestore: v1.1.0 → v1.9.0
- cloud.google.com/go/pubsub: v1.3.1 → v1.30.0
- cloud.google.com/go: v0.97.0 → v0.110.0
- github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go: [v55.0.0+incompatible → v68.0.0+incompatible](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/compare/v55.0.0...v68.0.0)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal: [v0.9.20 → v0.9.23](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal/compare/v0.9.20...v0.9.23)

    * - Ignore .mount cgroups, fixing dissappearing stats
    * - Fix wc goroutine leak
    * - Update aws-sdk-go dependency to 1.6.10
* PodSecurityPolicy authorization is correctly enforced by the PodSecurityPolicy admission plugin. ([#43489](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43489), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Other notable changes

* Update dashboard version to v1.6.0 ([#43210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43210), [@floreks](https://github.com/floreks))
* Update photon controller go SDK in vendor code. ([#43108](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43108), [@luomiao](https://github.com/luomiao))

- github.com/hashicorp/consul/api: [v1.1.0](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/api/tree/v1.1.0)
- github.com/hashicorp/consul/sdk: [v0.1.1](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/sdk/tree/v0.1.1)
- github.com/hashicorp/errwrap: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/hashicorp/errwrap/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/hashicorp/go-cleanhttp: [v0.5.1](https://github.com/hashicorp/go-cleanhttp/tree/v0.5.1)

- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace: v1.10.0 → v1.19.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric: v0.31.0 → v1.19.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk: v1.10.0 → v1.19.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace: v1.10.0 → v1.19.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel: v1.10.0 → v1.19.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp: v0.19.0 → v1.0.0
- golang.org/x/crypto: v0.11.0 → v0.14.0