- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/92250
  
    To address this, the new debian-hyperkube-base image (v1.1.0) uses the
    debian-iptables base image (v12.1.0), which includes iptables-wrapper, a
    script used to determine the correct iptables mode to run in. ([#92494](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92494), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Release]

- Bumped `distroless-iptables` to `0.3.2` based on Go `1.21.1`. ([#120527](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120527), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato))
- Bumped `distroless-iptables` to `0.3.3` based on Go `1.21.2`. ([#121073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121073), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato))

    - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/92250
  
    To address this, the new debian-hyperkube-base image (v1.1.0) uses the
    debian-iptables base image (v12.1.0), which includes iptables-wrapper, a
    script used to determine the correct iptables mode to run in. ([#92493](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92493), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Release]

- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.21.7
  - update distroless-iptables to v0.4.5 ([#123229](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123229), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes a race condition in the iptables mode of kube-proxy in 1.27 and later
  that could result in some updates getting lost (e.g., when a service gets a

    - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/92250
  
    To address this, the new debian-hyperkube-base image (v1.1.0) uses the
    debian-iptables base image (v12.1.0), which includes iptables-wrapper, a
    script used to determine the correct iptables mode to run in. ([#92495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92495), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Release]

- The userspace proxy now respects the IPTables proxy's minSyncInterval parameter. ([#71735](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71735), [@dcbw](https://github.com/dcbw))

- Update `kube-proxy` base image `debian-iptables` to v1.6.2 to pickup [documentation](https://github.com/kubernetes/release/pull/2106)
  \n"- `debian-iptables`: select nft mode if ntf lines > legacy lines, matching [iptables-wrappers](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/iptables-wrappers/)" ([#102590](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102590), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder))

- The iptables mode of kube-proxy now tracks accepted packets that are destined for node-ports on localhost by introducing `kubeproxy_iptables_localhost_nodeports_accepted_packets_total` metric.

* Bump up version number of debian-base, debian-hyperkube-base and debian-iptables.  ([#67026](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67026), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))
    * Also updates dependencies of users of debian-base.
    * debian-base version 0.3.1 is already available.

* Bump ip-masq-agent to v2.1.1 ([#67916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67916), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))
    * - Update debian-iptables image for CVEs.
    * - Change chain name to IP-MASQ to be compatible with the
    * pre-injected masquerade rules.