- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105404, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: ignore the case when updating Azure tags (#104687, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Revert PR #102925 which introduced unexpected scheduling behavior based on balanced resource allocation (#105239, @damemi) [SIG Scheduling]

* Fix --help flag parsing  ([#74682](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74682), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))
* This PR removes the following metrics: ([#74636](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74636), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))
    *   reflector_items_per_list
    *   reflector_items_per_watch

- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105402, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: ignore the case when updating Azure tags (#104686, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Revert PR #102925 which introduced unexpected scheduling behavior based on balanced resource allocation (#105238, @damemi) [SIG Scheduling]

* fix Azure Container Registry anonymous repo image pull error ([#74715](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74715), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* This PR removes the following metrics: ([#74636](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74636), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))
    *   reflector_items_per_list
    *   reflector_items_per_watch

- For raw block CSI volumes on Kubernetes, kubelet was incorrectly calling CSI NodeStageVolume for every single "map" (i.e. raw block "mount") operation for a volume already attached to the node. This PR ensures it is only called once per volume per node. ([#112403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112403), [@akankshakumari393](https://github.com/akankshakumari393)) [SIG Storage]

* This PR adds a manager to NodeController that is responsible for removing Pods from Nodes tainted with NoExecute Taints. This feature is beta (as the rest of taints) and enabled by default. It's gated by controller-manager enable-taint-manager flag. ([#403...

* This PR removes unused soak test cauldron ([#77335](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77335), [@loqutus](https://github.com/loqutus))
* N/A ([#76966](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76966), [@figo](https://github.com/figo))

  - Enable an out-of-tree cloud provider with `--cloud-provider=external` in either version.

    For more information on deprecating auto-detecting cloud providers in kubelet, see PR [#51312](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51312) and [announcement](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/kubernetes-dev/UAxwa2inbTA).

- The `PersistentVolumeLabel` admission controller in the API server is deprecated.

- Remove the limitation on exposing port 10250 externally in service. ([#129174](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129174), [@RyanAoh](https://github.com/RyanAoh)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- This PR corrects that documentation, making it clear to users that podSelector is optional and describes its default behavior. ([#131354](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131354), [@tomoish](https://github.com/tomoish)) [SIG Network]