- Azure VMSS/VMSSVM clients now suppress requests on throttling ([#86740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86740), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Azure cloud provider cache TTL is configurable, list of the azure cloud provider is as following:
  - "availabilitySetNodesCacheTTLInSeconds"
  - "vmssCacheTTLInSeconds"
  - "vmssVirtualMachinesCacheTTLInSeconds"
  - "vmCacheTTLInSeconds"

stener","readyWait","wait","readyState","doScroll","access","chainable","emptyGet","raw","bulk","_key","rmsPrefix","rdashAlpha","fcamelCase","_all","letter","toUpperCase","camelCase","string","acceptData","owner","Data","uid","defineProperty","configurable","set","data","prop","hasData","dataPriv","dataUser","rbrace","rmultiDash","dataAttr","JSON","parse","removeData","_data","_removeData","attrs","dequeue","startLength","hooks","_queueHooks","unshift","stop","setter","clearQueue","tmp","count",...

* [kubelet] Introduce --protect-kernel-defaults flag to make the tunable behaviour configurable ([#27874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27874), [@ingvagabund](https://github.com/ingvagabund))

* Added configurable etcd initial-cluster-state to kube-up script ([#41320](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41320), [@jszczepkowski](https://github.com/jszczepkowski))

- Fixed the example validation rule in...

  - Don't treat nodes created by virtual kubelet as nodes from non-autoscaled node groups
  - Remove redundant logging around calculating node utilization
  - Add configurable `--network` and `--rm` flags for docker in `Makefile`
  - Subtract DaemonSet pods' requests from node allocatable in the denominator while computing node utilization

- Graduated the AnonymousAuthConfigurableEndpoints feature gate to beta and enable by default to allow configurable endpoints for anonymous authentication. ([#127009](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127009), [@vinayakankugoyal](https://github.com/vinayakankugoyal)) [SIG Auth]

- Made kube-proxy Windows service control manager integration (`--windows-service`) configurable in v1alpha1 component configuration via `windowsRunAsService` field. ([#126072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126072), [@aroradaman](https://github.com/aroradaman)) [SIG Network and Scalability]

- Kubeadm: fix the bug that configurable KubernetesVersion not respected during kubeadm join ([#111021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111021), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

## Dependencies

### Added

- Rest.Config now supports a flag to override proxy configuration that was previously only configurable through environment variables. ([#81443](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81443), [@mikedanese](https://github.com/mikedanese)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]