invalid node names. ([#58502](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58502), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

* Authentication information for OpenStack cloud provider can now be specified as environment variables. When we convert the OpenStack cloud provider to run in an external process, we can now use the kubernetes Secrets capability to inject the OS_* variables. This way we can specify the cloud configuration as a configmap, and specify secrets for the userid/password...

- kubectl
  - The `kubectl convert` command is deprecated and will be removed in a future release ([#70820](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70820), [@seans3](https://github.com/seans3))

    for (int64_t i = 0; i < src.NumElements(); ++i) {
      src.flat<tstring>()(i) = data[i];
    }
    TF_Tensor* dst = TF_TensorFromTensor(src, &status);
    ASSERT_TRUE(status.ok()) << status.message();

    // Convert back to a C++ Tensor and ensure we get expected output.
    Tensor output;
    ASSERT_EQ(absl::OkStatus(), TF_TensorToTensor(dst, &output)) << line;
    ASSERT_EQ(src.NumElements(), output.NumElements()) << line;

- 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]

            params.put("query", query);
            params.put("responseFields", responseFields);
            params.put("offset", offset);
            params.put("size", size);
            // TODO support rescorer(convert to map)
            // params.put("geoInfo", geoInfo);
            // params.put("facetInfo", facetInfo);
            params.put("similarDocHash", similarDocHash);
            return params;
        }

- Ensure `InstanceShutdownByProviderID` return false for creating Azure VMs. ([#104382](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104382), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
- Evicted and other terminated Pods will no longer revert to the `Running` phase. ([#105462](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105462), [@ehashman](https://github.com/ehashman))

- 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 a data race in TopologyCache when `AddHints` and `SetNodes` are called concurrently ([#117268](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117268), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Apps and Network]
- Revert kubelet prober metrics `pod` tag to include actual pod name ([#118549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118549), [@a7i](https://github.com/a7i)) [SIG Node]

- Revert addition of Add `PersistentVolumeClaimDeletePoilcy` to `StatefulSet`API. ([#103747](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103747), [@mattcary](https://github.com/mattcary))

- Fixed a 1.31 regression starting kubelet on Windows: Revert "fix: handle socket file detection on Windows". ([#126976](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126976), [@jsturtevant](https://github.com/jsturtevant))