- The `--experimental-encryption-provider-config` flag is deprecated in favor of `--encryption-provider-config`. The old flag is accepted with a warning but will be removed in 1.14. ([#71206](https://github.com/ku...

- Fixed a bug where `Services` using finalizers may hold onto `ClusterIP` and/or `NodePort` allocated resources for longer than expected if the finalizer is removed using the status subresource. ([#120623](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120623), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

- When the kubelet is watching a ConfigMap or Secret purely in the context of setting environment variables
  for containers, only hold that watch for a defined duration before cancelling it. This change reduces the CPU

- Kube-proxy in iptables mode now only logs the full iptables input at `-v=9` rather than `-v=5`. ([#108224](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108224), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))
- Kube-proxy will no longer hold service node ports open on the node. Users are still advised not to run any listener on node ports range used by kube-proxy. ([#108496](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108496), [@khenidak](https://github.com/khenidak))

- Fixes a bug where Services using finalizers may hold onto ClusterIP and/or NodePort allocated resources for longer than expected if the finalizer is removed using the status subresource ([#120655](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120655), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network...

  - `priority_level_seat_count_watermarks` is removed.
  - `priority_level_request_count_samples` is replaced with `priority_level_request_utilization`, which samples every nanosecond rather than every millisecond; the old metric conveyed utilization despite its name.

- Fixes a bug where Services using finalizers may hold onto ClusterIP and/or NodePort allocated resources for longer than expected if the finalizer is removed using the status subresource ([#120656](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120656), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Network...

- Fixes a bug where Services using finalizers may hold onto ClusterIP and/or NodePort allocated resources for longer than expected if the finalizer is removed using the status subresource ([#120654](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120654), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Testing]...

- Fixed admission metrics in seconds. ([#72343](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72343), [@danielqsj](https://github.com/danielqsj))
- When a watch is closed by an HTTP2 load balancer and we are told to go away, skip printing the message to stderr by default.

- Fix the bug PIP's DNS is deleted if no DNS label service annotation isn't set. ([#87310](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87310), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: set nil cache entry based on old cache ([#87593](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87593), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase)) [SIG Cloud Provider]