* Resolves bottleneck in internal API server communication that can cause increased goroutines and degrade API Server performance ([#80465](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80465), [@answer1991](https://github.com/answer1991))

  - [Action Required](#action-required-1)
    - [Certificates API](#certificates-api)
    - [Cluster Autoscaler](#cluster-autoscaler)
    - [Deployment](#deployment)
    - [Federation](#federation)
    - [Internal Storage Layer](#internal-storage-layer)
    - [Node Components](#node-components)
    - [kubectl](#kubectl)
    - [RBAC](#rbac)
    - [Scheduling](#scheduling)
    - [Service](#service)
    - [StatefulSet](#statefulset)

      - [Information for Kubernetes clients (openapi, swagger, client-go)](#information-for-kubernetes-clients-openapi-swagger-client-go)
      - [Instrumentation](#instrumentation-1)
      - [Internal storage layer](#internal-storage-layer)
      - [Kubernetes Dashboard](#kubernetes-dashboard)
      - [kube-dns](#kube-dns)
      - [kube-proxy](#kube-proxy-1)
      - [kube-scheduler](#kube-scheduler)
      - [Storage](#storage-2)

    * annotation is service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-internal-subnet and its
    * value is the subnet name (not the subnet ARM ID).  If omitted, the default is the
    * master subnet.  It is ignored if the service is not on Azure, if the type is not
    * LoadBalancer, or if the load balancer is not internal.

- One new field "InternalTrafficPolicy" in Service is added.
  It specifies if the cluster internal traffic should be routed to all endpoints or node-local endpoints only.
  "Cluster" routes internal traffic to a Service to all endpoints.
  "Local" routes traffic to node-local endpoints only, and traffic is dropped if no node-local endpoints are ready.

## Changelog since v1.8.11

### Other notable changes

* GCE: Fix for internal load balancer management resulting in backend services with outdated instance group links. ([#62887](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62887), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

- github.com/prometheus/common: [v0.42.0 → v0.44.0](https://github.com/prometheus/common/compare/v0.42.0...v0.44.0)
- github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal: [v1.6.1 → v1.10.0](https://github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal/compare/v1.6.1...v1.10.0)
- golang.org/x/crypto: v0.6.0 → v0.11.0
- golang.org/x/net: v0.9.0 → v0.12.0
- golang.org/x/oauth2: v0.6.0 → v0.8.0
- golang.org/x/sys: v0.8.0 → v0.10.0

- github.com/go-kit/log: [v0.1.0](https://github.com/go-kit/log/tree/v0.1.0)
- github.com/gofrs/uuid: [v4.0.0+incompatible](https://github.com/gofrs/uuid/tree/v4.0.0)
- github.com/josharian/intern: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/josharian/intern/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/jpillora/backoff: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/jpillora/backoff/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/nxadm/tail: [v1.4.4](https://github.com/nxadm/tail/tree/v1.4.4)

- github.com/prometheus/procfs: [v0.10.1 → v0.15.1](https://github.com/prometheus/procfs/compare/v0.10.1...v0.15.1)
- github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal: [v1.10.0 → v1.12.0](https://github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal/compare/v1.10.0...v1.12.0)
- github.com/sergi/go-diff: [v1.1.0 → v1.2.0](https://github.com/sergi/go-diff/compare/v1.1.0...v1.2.0)

- github.com/prometheus/common: [v0.55.0 → v0.62.0](https://github.com/prometheus/common/compare/v0.55.0...v0.62.0)
- github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal: [v1.12.0 → v1.13.1](https://github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal/compare/v1.12.0...v1.13.1)
- github.com/stretchr/testify: [v1.9.0 → v1.10.0](https://github.com/stretchr/testify/compare/v1.9.0...v1.10.0)