- 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._

### CronJob
* Add configurable limits to CronJob resource to specify how many successful and failed jobs are preserved. ([#40932](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40932), [@peay](https://github.com/peay))

### DaemonSet
* DaemonSet now respects ControllerRef to avoid fighting over Pods. ([#42173](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42173), [@enisoc](https://github.com/enisoc))

- 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]

- 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]

* 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))

* Fix a scalability issue where high rates of event writes degraded etcd performance. ([#64539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64539), [@ccding](https://github.com/ccding))
* fixes a memory leak in the kube-controller-manager observed when large numbers of pods with tolerations are created/deleted ([#65339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65339), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Updates konnectivity-network-proxy to v0.0.27. This includes a memory leak fix for the network proxy ([#107188](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107188), [@rata](https://github.com/rata)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- Fixes a kubelet and kube-apiserver memory leak in default 1.29 configurations related to tracing. ([#126984](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126984), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]

- Fixed a bug where the kube-proxy `EndpointSliceCache` memory experienced a leak. ([#128929](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128929), [@orange30](https://github.com/orange30))