- Fix: skip case sensitivity when checking Azure NSG rules
  fix: ensure InstanceShutdownByProviderID return false for creating Azure VMs ([#104449](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104449), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* fix: detach azure disk issue using dangling error ([#81266](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81266), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixed a bug in the CSI metrics that does not return not supported error when a CSI driver does not support metrics. ([#79851](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79851), [@jparklab](https://github.com/jparklab))

- Fix: skip case sensitivity when checking Azure NSG rules
  fix: ensure InstanceShutdownByProviderID return false for creating Azure VMs ([#104446](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104446), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

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      <match value="Forward\ to" type="string" offset="0"/>
      <match value="Pipe\ to" type="string" offset="0"/>
      <match value="Return-Path:" type="stringignorecase" offset="0"/>
      <match value="Message-ID:" type="stringignorecase" offset="0"/>
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- Ensure `InstanceShutdownByProviderID` return false for creating Azure VMs. ([#104382](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104382), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- kubeadm: improved the overall logic, error handling, and output messages when waiting for the kubelet and API server `/healthz` endpoints to return `OK`. The kubelet and API server checks no longer ran in parallel, but one after another (in serial).
   ([#121958](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121958), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- Fix: skip case sensitivity when checking Azure NSG rules
  fix: ensure InstanceShutdownByProviderID return false for creating Azure VMs ([#104447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104447), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fixed occasional pod cgroup freeze when using cgroup v1 and systemd driver.

- On compatible systems, a mounter's Unmount implementation is changed to not return an error when the specified target can be detected as not a mount point. On Linux, the behavior of detecting a mount point depends on `umount` command is validated when the mounter is created. Additionally, mount point checks will be skipped in C...

- On compatible systems, a mounter's Unmount implementation is changed to not return an error when the specified target can be detected as not a mount point. On Linux, the behavior of detecting a mount point depends on `umount` command is validated when the mounter is created. Additionally, mount point checks will be skipped in C...

- Fixed API response for `StorageClassList` queries to return a graceful error message, if the provided `ResourceVersion` is too large. ([#132374](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132374), [@PatrickLaabs](https://github.com/PatrickLaabs)) [SIG API Machinery and Etcd]