* It is now possible to override the healthcheck parameters for AWS ELBs via annotations on the corresponding service. The new annotations are `healthy-threshold`, `unhealthy-threshold`, `timeout`, `interval` (all prefixed with `service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-healthcheck-`) ([#56024](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56024), [@dimpavloff](https://github.com/dimpavloff))

- Fixed a bug that on k8s nodes, when the policy of INPUT chain in filter table is not ACCEPT, healthcheck nodeport would not work.
  Added iptables rules to allow healthcheck nodeport traffic. ([#97824](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97824), [@hanlins](https://github.com/hanlins)) [SIG Network]

* Fix panic in ControllerManager on GCE when it has a problem with creating external loadbalancer healthcheck ([#52646](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52646), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))

* GCE: provide an option to disable docker's live-restore on COS/ubuntu ([#55260](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55260), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))
* Fix kube-proxy hang due to panic when requesting a closed healthcheck. ([#46450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46450), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

### API Change

- client-go

  unsupported.' ([#119346](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119346), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave))
- '`kubeadm`: removed `system:masters` organization from `etcd/healthcheck-client`
  certificate.' ([#119859](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119859), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

* Fix panic in ControllerManager on GCE when it has a problem with creating external loadbalancer healthcheck ([#52646](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52646), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))

- Promoted `kubernetes_healthcheck` and `kubernetes_healthchecks_total` to `BETA` stability level. ([#118986](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118986), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

- Kubemark is now built as a portable, static binary. ([#106150](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106150), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Scalability and Testing]
- Migrate `cmd/proxy/{config, healthcheck, winkernel}` to structured logging ([#104944](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104944), [@jyz0309](https://github.com/jyz0309))