#### kubectl:

--require-kubeconfig flag, removed default --kubeconfig value (([#58367](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58367), [@zhangxiaoyu-zidif](https://github.com/zhangxiaoyu-zidif))

* The public-address-override, address, and port flags have been removed and replaced by bind-address, insecure-bind-address, and insecure-port, respectively. They are marked as deprecated in [#36604](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36604), which is more than a year ago.  ([#59018](https://github.com/kub...

- Kubeadm: add support for `127.0.0.1` as advertise address. kubeadm will automatically replace this value with matching global unicast IP address on the loopback interface. ([#83475](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83475), [@fabriziopandini](https://github.com/fabriziopandini))

- The `--bind-address` parameter in kube-proxy is misleading, no port is opened with this address. Instead it is translated internally to "nodeIP". The nodeIPs for both families are now taken from the Node object if `--bind-address` is unspecified or set to the "any" address (0.0.0.0 or ::). It is recommended to leave `--bind-address` unspecified, and in particular avoid to set it to localhost (127.0.0.1 or ::1) ([#119525...

- Kube-apiserver: the insecure address flags `--address`, `--insecure-bind-address`, `--port` and `--insecure-port` (inert since 1.20) are removed ([#106859](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106859), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42))

- kubeadm: graduated the WaitForAllControlPlaneComponents feature gate to Beta. When checking the health status of a control plane component, make sure that the address and port defined as arguments in the respective component's static Pod manifest are used....

* Fixed GlusterFS volumes taking too long to time out ([#48709](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48709), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* The IP address and port for kube-proxy metrics server is now configurable via flag `--metrics-bind-address` ([#48625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48625), [@mrhohn](https://github.com/mrhohn))
  * Special notice for kube-proxy in 1.7+ (including 1.7.0):

</p>

<pre>
type Person struct {
	Name    string
	Address *struct {
		Street string
		City   string
	}
}

var data *struct {
	Name    string `json:"name"`
	Address *struct {
		Street string `json:"street"`
		City   string `json:"city"`
	} `json:"address"`
}

var person = (*Person)(data)  // ignoring tags, the underlying types are identical

* GCE: Fix to make the built-in `kubernetes` service properly point to the master's load balancer address in clusters that use multiple master VMs. ([#63696](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63696), [@grosskur](https://github.com/grosskur))

## Changelog since v1.27.15

## Important Security Information

This release contains changes that address the following vulnerabilities:

### CVE-2024-5321: Incorrect permissions on Windows containers logs

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes clusters with Windows nodes