### Network
- The official kube-proxy image (used by kubeadm, among other things) is now compatible with systems running iptables 1.8 in "nft" mode, and will autodetect which mode it should use. ([#82966](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82966), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

- Added validation to ensure that if `service.kubernetes.io/topology-aware-hints` and `service.kubernetes.io/topology-mode` annotations are both set, they are set to the same value.Also Added deprecation warning if `service.kubernetes.io/topology-aware-hints` annotation is used. ([#116612](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116612), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))

- Fixed a regression introduced in v1.29 where conntrack entries for UDP connections
  to deleted pods did not get cleaned up correctly, which could (among other things)
  cause DNS problems when DNS pods were restarted. ([#127780](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127780), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

- Kube-scheduler implements scheduling hints for the VolumeRestriction plugin.
  Scheduling hints allow the scheduler to retry scheduling Pods that were previously rejected by the VolumeRestriction plugin if a new pvc added, and the pvc belongs to pod. ([#125280](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125280), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi)) [SIG Scheduling and Storage]
- Kube-scheduler implements scheduling hints for the VolumeZone plugin.

- Kube-scheduler implemented scheduling hints for the `NodeAffinity` plugin. The scheduling hints allowed the scheduler to only retry scheduling a Pod that had been previously rejected by the `NodeAffinity` plugin if a new Node or a Node update matched the Pod's node affinity. ([#122309](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122309), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

  the `nf_conntrack_tcp_be_liberal` is not set. ([#120412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120412), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))
- `kube-scheduler` implemented scheduling hints for the `NodeUnschedulable` plugin.
  The scheduling hints allow the scheduler to only retry scheduling a `Pod`

- Using `--log-file` is known to be problematic in 1.15. This presents as things being logged multiple times to the same file. The behaviour and details of this issue, as well as some preliminary attempts at fixing it are documented [here](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/78734#issuecomment-501372131)

### Service

- Topology Aware Hints now ignores unready endpoints when assigning hints. ([#106510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106510), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))

- The `TopologyAwareHints` feature gate is now enabled by default. This will allow users to opt-in to Topology Aware Hints by setting the `service.kubernetes.io/topology-aware-hints` on a Service. This will not affect any Services without that annotation set. ([#108747](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108747), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))