conntrack entries, sockets. This is achieved by reducing the `TIME-WAIT` state
  of the connection to 1 second, instead of the defaults 60 seconds. This allows
  kubelet to free the socket, and free conntrack entry and ephemeral port associated. ([#115143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115143), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

* Reduced the CPU and memory requests for the Metrics Server Nanny sidecar container to free up unused resources.  ([#57252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57252), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))

* Get windows kernel version directly from registry ([#58498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58498), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fixes a bug where kubelet crashes trying to free memory under memory pressure ([#58574](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58574), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

  `kubelet_volume_stats_capacity_bytes`
  `kubelet_volume_stats_available_bytes`
  `kubelet_volume_stats_used_bytes`
  `kubelet_volume_stats_inodes`
  `kubelet_volume_stats_inodes_free`
  `kubelet_volume_stats_inodes_used`
  `plugin_manager_total_plugins`
  `volume_manager_total_volumes`
  ([#84907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84907), [@RainbowMango](https://github.com/RainbowMango))

  This is achieved by reducing the TIME-WAIT state of the connection to 1 second, instead of the defaults 60 seconds. This allows kubelet to free the socket, and free conntrack entry and ephemeral port associated. ([#115143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115143), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Node]

  This is achieved by reducing the TIME-WAIT state of the connection to 1 second, instead of the defaults 60 seconds. This allows kubelet to free the socket, and free conntrack entry and ephemeral port associated. ([#115143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115143), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Node]

  This is achieved by reducing the TIME-WAIT state of the connection to 1 second, instead of the defaults 60 seconds. This allows kubelet to free the socket, and free conntrack entry and ephemeral port associated. ([#115143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115143), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network and Node]

* Prevent hotloops on error conditions, which could fill up the disk faster than log rotation can free space. ([#40497](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40497), [@lavalamp](https://github.com/lavalamp))

### Cloud Provider

#### AWS

  - go_gc_pauses_seconds
  - go_memory_classes_heap_free_bytes
  - go_memory_classes_heap_objects_bytes
  - go_memory_classes_heap_released_bytes
  - go_memory_classes_heap_stacks_bytes
  - go_memory_classes_heap_unused_bytes
  - go_memory_classes_metadata_mcache_free_bytes
  - go_memory_classes_metadata_mcache_inuse_bytes
  - go_memory_classes_metadata_mspan_free_bytes
  - go_memory_classes_metadata_mspan_inuse_bytes