- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Azure: avoid setting cached Sku when updating VMSS and VMSS instances ([#102005](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102005), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Fix invalid VMSS updates due to incorrect cache ([#89002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89002), [@ArchangelSDY](https://github.com/ArchangelSDY)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix the VMSS name and resource group name when updating Azure VMSS for LoadBalancer backendPools ([#89337](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89337), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Fix problem in updating VolumeAttached in node status ([#112302](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112302), [@xing-yang](https://github.com/xing-yang)) [SIG Apps]

are hence enabled by default. This will be fixed in a future release.
[#38593](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/38593)
* Federation control plane can be upgraded by updating the image
fields in the `Deployment` specs of the control plane components.
However, federation control plane upgrades were not tested in this
release [38537](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/38537)

- All api-server log request lines in a more greppable format. ([#87203](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87203), [@lavalamp](https://github.com/lavalamp)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Azure VMSS LoadBalancerBackendAddressPools updating has been improved with sequential-sync + concurrent-async requests. ([#88699](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88699), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Added consistent vanity import to files and provided tooling for verifying and updating them. ([#120642](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120642), [@jcchavezs](https://github.com/jcchavezs))

- Kubeadm: improved retries when updating node information, in case `kube-apiserver` is temporarily unavailable ([#114176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114176), [@QuantumEnergyE](https://github.com/QuantumEnergyE))

- If an old pod spec has used image volume source, we must allow it when updating the resource even if the feature-gate ImageVolume is disabled. ([#126733](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126733), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Node]

- Fix invalid VMSS updates due to incorrect cache ([#89002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89002), [@ArchangelSDY](https://github.com/ArchangelSDY)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix the VMSS name and resource group name when updating Azure VMSS for LoadBalancer backendPools ([#89337](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89337), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Metrics for `RetroactiveDefaultStorageClass` feature are now available. To see an attempt count for updating PVC retroactively with a default StorageClass see `retroactive_storageclass_total` metric and for total numer of errors see `retroactive_storageclass_errors_total`. ([#113323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113323), [@RomanBednar]...