- GCE Internal LoadBalancer sync loop will now release the ILB IP address upon sync failure. An error in ILB forwarding rule creation will no longer leak IP addresses. ([#97740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97740), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- Fix memory leak in the job controller related to JobTrackingWithFinalizers ([#111723](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111723), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps]

- Fixed a bug where startupProbe stopped working after a container's first restart ([#101093](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101093), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]
- Fixed port-forward memory leak for long-running and heavily used connections. ([#99839](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99839), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]

### Bug or Regression

- Bump sigs.k8s.io/apiserver-network-proxy/konnectivity-client to v0.0.30, fixing goroutine leaks in kube-apiserver. ([#108439](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108439), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cloud Provider]

* kube-apiserver: Fixed a regression accepting patch requests > 1MB ([#84963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84963), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* kube-apiserver: fixed a bug that could cause a goroutine leak if the apiserver encountered an encoding error serving a watch to a websocket watcher ([#84693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84693), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))

- Fixed a possible memory leak in the QueueingHint (alpha feature). ([#126962](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126962), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))
- Fixed a potential memory leak in QueueingHint (alpha feature). ([#127016](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127016), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))

### Bug or Regression

- Bump sigs.k8s.io/apiserver-network-proxy/konnectivity-client to v0.0.30, fixing goroutine leaks in kube-apiserver. ([#108440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108440), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

* kube-apiserver: Fixed a regression accepting patch requests > 1MB ([#84963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84963), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* kube-apiserver: fixed a bug that could cause a goroutine leak if the apiserver encountered an encoding error serving a watch to a websocket watcher ([#84693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84693), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))

* Fix an issue where AWS tear-down leaks an DHCP Option Set. ([#38645](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38645), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))

### Juju

- Added memory tracking to scheduler performance tests to help detect memory leaks and monitored memory usage patterns while running `scheduler_perf`. ([#132910](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132910), [@utam0k](https://github.com/utam0k)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]