* Fix kubelet start failure issue on Azure Stack due to InstanceMetadata setting ([#74936](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74936), [@rjaini](https://github.com/rjaini))

- Fixed a bug where init containers may fail to start due to a temporary container runtime failure. ([#127214](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127214), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Node]

		go func() {
			respBytes, apiErr, errMsg := globalAllHealState.LaunchNewHealSequence(nh, objectAPI)
			hr := healResp{respBytes, apiErr, errMsg}
			respCh <- hr
		}()
	}

	// Due to the force-starting functionality, the Launch
	// call above can take a long time - to keep the
	// connection alive, we start sending whitespace
	keepConnLive(w, r, respCh)
}

* Limit use of tags when calling EC2 API to prevent API throttling for very large clusters ([#76749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76749), [@mcrute](https://github.com/mcrute))
* fix azure disk naming matching issue due to case sensitive comparison ([#81720](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81720), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* Bugfix: master startup script on GCP no longer fails randomly due to concurrent iptables invocations. ([#55945](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55945), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))

- Fix Windows kube-proxy (winkernel) issue where stale RemoteEndpoints remained
  when a Deployment was referenced by multiple Services due to premature clearing
  of the terminatedEndpoints map. ([#135171](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135171), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network and Windows]

 - Fix: azure disk dangling attach issue which would cause API throttling ([#90749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90749), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
 - Fix: get attach disk error due to missing item in max count table ([#89768](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89768), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

- Setting a mirror pod's phase to Succeeded or Failed can prevent the corresponding static pod from restarting due mutation of a Kubelet cache. ([#116482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116482), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton)) [SIG Node]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

* fix detach azure disk issue due to dirty cache ([#71495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71495), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Kubeadm: remove the "ephemeral_storage" request from the etcd static pod that kubeadm deploys on stacked etcd control plane nodes. This request has caused sporadic failures on some setups due to a problem in the kubelet with cadvisor and the LocalStorageCapacityIsolation feature gate. See this issue for more details: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/99305 ([#102673](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102673), [...