- The nftables mode of kube-proxy is now GA. (The iptables mode remains the
  default; you can select the nftables mode by passing `--proxy-mode nftables`
  or using a config file with `mode: nftables`. See the kube-proxy documentation

- github.com/google/cel-go: [v0.23.2 → v0.26.0](https://github.com/google/cel-go/compare/v0.23.2...v0.26.0)
- github.com/google/gnostic-models: [v0.6.9 → v0.7.0](https://github.com/google/gnostic-models/compare/v0.6.9...v0.7.0)
- github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/v2: [v2.24.0 → v2.26.3](https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway/compare/v2.24.0...v2.26.3)

- github.com/antlr/antlr4/runtime/Go/antlr/v4: [8188dc5](https://github.com/antlr/antlr4/runtime/Go/antlr/v4/tree/8188dc5)
- github.com/google/gnostic-models: [v0.6.8](https://github.com/google/gnostic-models/tree/v0.6.8)
- github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy: [v0.2.3](https://github.com/googleapis/enterprise-certificate-proxy/tree/v0.2.3)

* Remove outdated net.experimental.kubernetes.io/proxy-mode and net.beta.kubernetes.io/proxy-mode annotations from kube-proxy. ([#40585](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40585), [@cblecker](https://github.com/cblecker))

- Removed all support for _classic_ dynamic resource allocation (DRA). The `DRAControlPlaneController` feature gate, formerly alpha, is no longer available. Kubernetes now only uses the _structured parameters_ model (also alpha) for allocating dynamic resources to Pods.

- Fix VMSS LoadBalancer backend pools so that the network won't be broken when instances are upgraded to latest model ([#81411](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81411), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))

- Kube-proxy no longer falls back from ipvs mode to iptables mode if you ask it to do ipvs but the system is not correctly configured. Instead, it will just exit with an error. ([#111806](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111806), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network]

## Changelog since v1.7.0-alpha.4

### Action Required

* kube-apiserver: a new authorization mode (`--authorization-mode=Node`) authorizes nodes to access secrets, configmaps, persistent volume claims and persistent volumes related to their pods. ([#46076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46076), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- kube-proxy no longer automatically cleans up network rules created by running kube-proxy in other modes. If you are switching the kube-proxy mode (EG: iptables to IPVS), you will need to run `kube-proxy --cleanup`, or restart the worker node (recommended) before restarting kube-proxy. If you are not switching kube-proxy between different modes, this change should not require any action. ([#76109](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76109), [@vllry](https://github.com/vllry))...

- Defaults for file audit logging backend in batch mode changed: ([#67223](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67223), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))