- github.com/russross/blackfriday: [v1.6.0](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday/tree/v1.6.0)
- github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v5: [v5.3.1](https://github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/tree/v5.3.1)
- go.opentelemetry.io/auto/sdk: v1.1.0
- gopkg.in/go-jose/go-jose.v2: v2.6.3
- sigs.k8s.io/randfill: v1.0.0

### Changed
- cel.dev/expr: v0.18.0 → v0.19.1
- cloud.google.com/go/compute/metadata: v0.3.0 → v0.5.0

- github.com/zeebo/errs: [v1.4.0](https://github.com/zeebo/errs/tree/v1.4.0)
- go.etcd.io/raft/v3: v3.6.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/detectors/gcp: v1.34.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric: v1.34.0
- go.yaml.in/yaml/v2: v2.4.2
- go.yaml.in/yaml/v3: v3.0.4
- sigs.k8s.io/structured-merge-diff/v6: v6.3.0

### Changed
- cel.dev/expr: v0.19.1 → v0.24.0

}

// concurrency level for certain parallel tests.
const testConcurrencyLevel = 10

const iso8601TimeFormat = "2006-01-02T15:04:05.000Z"

// Excerpts from @lsegal - https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js/issues/659#issuecomment-120477258
//
//	User-Agent:
//
//	    This is ignored from signing because signing this causes problems with generating pre-signed URLs

- Add azure disk encryption(SSE+CMK) support ([#84605](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84605), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Update Azure SDK versions to v35.0.0 ([#84543](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84543), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- gotest.tools/gotestsum: v0.3.5
- honnef.co/go/tools: v0.0.1-2019.2.2

#### Changed

- cloud.google.com/go: v0.34.0 → v0.38.0
- github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go: [v21.4.0+incompatible → v32.5.0+incompatible](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/compare/v21.4.0...v32.5.0)
- github.com/BurntSushi/toml: [v0.3.0 → v0.3.1](https://github.com/BurntSushi/toml/compare/v0.3.0...v0.3.1)

*   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**

- 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)

- 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))