* Azure VMSS: support VM names to contain the `_` character ([#63526](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63526), [@djsly](https://github.com/djsly))

 *
 * <p>This implementation is heavily derived from revision 1.96 of <a
 * href="http://tinyurl.com/ConcurrentHashMap">ConcurrentHashMap.java</a>.
 *
 * @author Charles Fry
 * @author Bob Lee ({@code com.google.common.collect.MapMaker})
 * @author Doug Lea ({@code ConcurrentHashMap})
 */
@SuppressWarnings({
  "GoodTime", // lots of violations (nanosecond math)

// and then asserting the response with the expected one.
func (s *TestSuiteCommon) TestListObjectsSpecialCharactersHandler(c *check) {
	if runtime.GOOS == globalWindowsOSName {
		c.Skip("skip special character test for windows")
	}

	// generate a random bucket name.
	bucketName := getRandomBucketName()
	// HTTP request to create the bucket.

 *
 * <p>This implementation is heavily derived from revision 1.96 of <a
 * href="http://tinyurl.com/ConcurrentHashMap">ConcurrentHashMap.java</a>.
 *
 * @author Charles Fry
 * @author Bob Lee ({@code com.google.common.collect.MapMaker})
 * @author Doug Lea ({@code ConcurrentHashMap})
 */
@SuppressWarnings({
  "GoodTime", // lots of violations (nanosecond math)

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* Block device support has been added for azure disk. ([#63841](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63841), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Azure VM names can now contain the underscore (`_`) character ([#63526](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63526), [@djsly](https://github.com/djsly))
* Azure disks now support external resource groups.

kube-proxy, kubeadm {alpha|config|token|version}, kubemark. Flags should be prefixed with a single dash "-" (0x45) for short form or double dash "--" for long form. Before this change, malformed flags (for example, starting with a non-ascii dash character such as 0x8211: "–") would have been silently treated as positional arguments and ignored. ([#91349](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91349), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG API Machinery, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle,...

- Added a `--topology-manager-policy-options` flag to the kubelet to support fine tuning the topology manager policies. The first policy option, `prefer-closest-numa-nodes`, allows these policies to favor sets of NUMA nodes with shorter distance between nodes when making admission decisions. ([#112914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112914), [@PiotrProkop](https://github.com/PiotrProkop))

* Support new NODE_OS_DISTRIBUTION 'custom' on GCE ([#61235](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61235), [@yguo0905](https://github.com/yguo0905))
* Fixes a bug where character devices are not recognized by the kubelet ([#60440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60440), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

- Fixes a 1.34 regression starting pods with environment variables with a value containing `$` followed by a multi-byte character ([#136490](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/136490), [@AutuSnow](https://github.com/AutuSnow)) [SIG Architecture and Node]