* Immediately close the other side of the connection when proxying. ([#67288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67288), [@MHBauer](https://github.com/MHBauer))
* Disable proxy to loopback and linklocal ([#71980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71980), [@micahhausler](https://github.com/micahhausler))

* Node-Problem-Detector configuration is now decoupled from the Kubernetes release on GKE/GCE. ([#73288](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73288), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))
* Restores --username and --password flags to kubectl ([#75451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75451), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* fix: make azure disk URI as case insensitive ([#79020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79020), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

[registry.k8s.io/conformance:v1.31.12](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/conformance) | [amd64](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/conformance-amd64), [arm64](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/conformance-arm64), [ppc64le](https://console.cloud.google.com/artifacts/docker/k8s-artifacts-prod/southamerica-east1/images/conformance-ppc64le),...

- cloud.google.com/go/appengine: v1.7.1
- cloud.google.com/go/area120: v0.7.1
- cloud.google.com/go/artifactregistry: v1.13.0
- cloud.google.com/go/asset: v1.13.0
- cloud.google.com/go/assuredworkloads: v1.10.0
- cloud.google.com/go/automl: v1.12.0
- cloud.google.com/go/baremetalsolution: v0.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go/batch: v0.7.0
- cloud.google.com/go/beyondcorp: v0.5.0

* Fixes segmentation fault issue with Protobuf library when log entries are deeply nested. ([#77224](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77224), [@qingling128](https://github.com/qingling128))
* Clean links handling in cp's tar code ([#76788](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76788), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

## Dependencies

### Added
- github.com/a8m/tree: [10a5fd5](https://github.com/a8m/tree/tree/10a5fd5)
- github.com/dougm/pretty: [2ee9d74](https://github.com/dougm/pretty/tree/2ee9d74)
- github.com/rasky/go-xdr: [4930550](https://github.com/rasky/go-xdr/tree/4930550)

.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-scheduler) | [amd64](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-scheduler-amd64), [arm](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-scheduler-arm), [arm64](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-scheduler-arm64), [ppc64le](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/images/k8s-artifacts-prod/us/kube-scheduler-ppc64le), [s390x](https://console.cloud.google.com/gcr/imag...

- 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]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- github.com/gogo/protobuf: [v1.3.1 → v1.3.2](https://github.com/gogo/protobuf/compare/v1.3.1...v1.3.2)
- github.com/kisielk/errcheck: [v1.2.0 → v1.5.0](https://github.com/kisielk/errcheck/compare/v1.2.0...v1.5.0)