Changes by Kind

Fixed overwriting CapacityBuffer conditions and fixed typos in condition messages and reasons (#9252, @jackfrancis)
huawei-cloud-provider: Nodes without providerId are skipped (with a warning), and CA continues to work normally for other nodes. (#9208, @Hargeek)

Azure: implement AtomicIncreaseSize for VMS (#9796, @reneeli123)
Azure: optional ETag optimistic concurrency on VMSS capacity updates (#9838, @mboersma)
Do not override condition in buffers limits translator (#9309, @norbertcyran)
Fixed CAPI provider failing to initialize when using CAPI v1.11+ with infrastructure providers that only serve v1beta1 APIs (e.g. Azure CAPZ). (#9755, @LiangquanLi930)
Fixed a bug with DRA node readiness processor not considering devices from multiple resource slices (#9460, @mtrqq)
Pods with hard TopologySpreadConstraints using the default nodeTaintsPolicy will no longer cause scale-down/scale-up oscillation. The scale-down simulation now faithfully models the drain taint, matching real scheduler behavior. Pods using nodeTaintsPolicy: Honor are unaffected and continue to scale down correctly. (#9553, @tallaxes)
Regenerate Azure static SKU list (#9373, @rrangith)

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