* The AWS credential provider can now obtain ECR credentials even without the AWS cloud provider or being on an EC2 instance. Additionally, AWS credential provider caching has been improved to honor the ECR credential timeout. ([#75587](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75587), [@tiffanyfay](https://github.com/tiffanyfay))

* AWS: Remove duplicate calls to DescribeInstance during volume operations ([#39842](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39842), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
* Caching added to the OIDC client auth plugin to fix races and reduce the time kubectl commands using this plugin take by several seconds. ([#38167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38167), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

- Improving the performance of Endpoint and EndpointSlice controllers by caching Service Selectors ([#84280](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84280), [@gongguan](https://github.com/gongguan))

- Fixed a bug where, after a kubelet restart, regular containers in a pod with a
  sidecar (initContainer with restartPolicy: Always) and a startupProbe failed
  to restart after crashing. Affected pods remained stuck with RestartCount: 0
  indefinitely. ([#137146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/137146), [@george-angel](https://github.com/george-angel)) [SIG Node and Testing]

  }

  /**
   * Returns the specified comparator if not null; otherwise returns {@code Ordering.natural()}.
   * This method is an abomination of generics; the only purpose of this method is to contain the
   * ugly type-casting in one place.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  static <E extends @Nullable Object> Comparator<? super E> orNaturalOrder(
      @Nullable Comparator<? super E> comparator) {

  }

  /**
   * Returns the specified comparator if not null; otherwise returns {@code Ordering.natural()}.
   * This method is an abomination of generics; the only purpose of this method is to contain the
   * ugly type-casting in one place.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  static <E extends @Nullable Object> Comparator<? super E> orNaturalOrder(
      @Nullable Comparator<? super E> comparator) {

- The AWS credential provider can now obtain ECR credentials even without the AWS cloud provider or being on an EC2 instance. Additionally, AWS credential provider caching has been improved to honor the ECR credential timeout. ([#75587](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75587), [@tiffanyfay](https://github.com/tiffanyfay))


### Azure

- Graduated HorizontalPodAutoscaler support for per-container metrics to stable. ([#123482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123482), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))

- The nftables mode of kube-proxy is now GA. (The iptables mode remains the
  default; you can select the nftables mode by passing `--proxy-mode nftables`
  or using a config file with `mode: nftables`. See the kube-proxy documentation

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