* 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:v1.31.14](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),...

- Fix missing kubelet_volume_stats_* metrics ([#133905](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133905), [@huww98](https://github.com/huww98)) [SIG Instrumentation and Node]

* support cross resource group for azure file ([#68117](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68117), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Use real device path in isDeviceOpen check on umount ([#68674](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68674), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

* Fix for Nodes in vSphere lacking an InternalIP. ([#48760](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48760)) ([#49202](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49202), [@cbonte](https://github.com/cbonte))
* [fluentd-gcp addon] Update Stackdriver plugin to version 0.6.7 ([#52565](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52565), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))

### Feature

- Bump cAdvisor to v0.49.2 ([#129133](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129133), [@cwangVT](https://github.com/cwangVT)) [SIG Node]
- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.22.11 ([#129964](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129964), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

- Kubeadm: fixes a preflight check that can fail hostname construction in IPV6 setups ([#134590](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134590), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle and Testing]

* fix: detach azure disk issue using dangling error ([#81266](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81266), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix a bug in the IPVS proxier where virtual servers are not cleaned up even though the corresponding Service object was deleted. ([#80942](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80942), [@gongguan](https://github.com/gongguan))