credentials for vCenter stored in a secret and Zones feature is in use. Zone labels setup moved to KCM component, kubelet skips this step during startup in such case. If credentials stored in cloud-provider config file as plaintext current behaviour does not change and no action required. For proper functioning `kube-system:vsphere-legacy-cloud-provider` should be allowed to update node object if vCenter credentials stored in secret and Zone feature used. ([#101028](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101028),...

- Reminder: The labels "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone" and "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region" are deprecated in favor of "topology.kubernetes.io/zone" and "topology.kubernetes.io/region" respectively.  All users of the "failure-domain.beta..." labels should switch to the "topology..." equivalents. ([#96033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96033),...

Time":""},yt.dates=t("dates accessor is deprecated. Use date instead.",lt),yt.months=t("months accessor is deprecated. Use month instead",Ae),yt.years=t("years accessor is deprecated. Use year instead",ze),yt.zone=t("moment().zone is deprecated, use moment().utcOffset instead. http://momentjs.com/guides/#/warnings/zone/",function(e,a){return null!=e?("string"!=typeof e&&(e=-e),this.utcOffset(e,a),this):-this.utcOffset()}),yt.isDSTShifted=t("isDSTShifted is deprecated. See http://momentjs.com/guides/#/warnings/dst-shifted/...

### Bug or Regression

- Fix Topology Aware Hints not working when the `topology.kubernetes.io/zone` label is added after Node creation

##### Cluster Autoscaler

* Cluster autoscaler is now GA
* Cluster support size is increased to 1000 nodes
* Respect graceful pod termination of up to 10 minutes
* Handle zone stock-outs and failures
* Improve monitoring and error reporting

#### Container Runtime Interface (CRI)

- For GCE cluster provider, fix bug of not being able to create internal type load balancer for clusters with more than 1000 nodes in a single zone. ([#89902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89902), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Network and Scalability]

              <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%E2%88%9212:00">-12</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B14:00">+14</a>
              or a valid time zone id like "America/Montreal" (UTC-05:00) or "Europe/Paris" (UTC+01:00).
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          </description>
          <type>String</type>
        </field>
        <field>
          <name>properties</name>

- Ensure Azure availability zone is always in lower cases. ([#89722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89722), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Automatically copy `topology.k8s.io/zone`, `topology.k8s.io/region` and `kubernetes.io/hostname` labels from Node objects to Pods when they are scheduled to a node (via the `pods/binding` endpoint) to allow applications that need to be explicitly aware of their assigned node topology to access...

- Fix system default topology spreading when nodes don't have zone labels. Pods correctly spread by default now. ([#105046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105046), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))