* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))
* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

* Use old dns-ip mechanism with older cdk-addons. ([#57403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57403), [@wwwtyro](https://github.com/wwwtyro))

* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

- Fixes a bug that when there is a "connection refused" error, the reflector's ListAndWatch func will return directly but what expected is that sleep 1 second and rewatch since the specified resourceVersion.

### Other notable changes

* change default azure file/dir mode to 0755 ([#56551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56551), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

* fix incorrect error info when creating an azure file PVC failed ([#56550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56550), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

- Fixed a bug where the device resources allocated to an init container, with `containerRestartPolicy` of `Always`, were erroneously reused by a regular container. ([#120461](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120461), [@gjkim...

  // Variable references $(VAR_NAME) are expanded using the container's environment. If a variable
  // cannot be resolved, the reference in the input string will be unchanged. Double $$ are reduced
  // to a single $, which allows for escaping the $(VAR_NAME) syntax: i.e. "$$(VAR_NAME)" will
  // produce the string literal "$(VAR_NAME)". Escaped references will never be expanded, regardless

- Fixed an EndpointSlice Controller hashing bug that could cause EndpointSlices to incorrectly handle Pods with duplicate IP addresses. For example this could happen when a new Pod reused an IP that was also assigned to a Pod in a completed state. ([#115907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115907), [@qinqon](https://github.com/qinqon)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- Reduced duration to sync proxy rules on Windows `kube-proxy` when using `kernelspace` mode. ([#109124](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109124), [@daschott](https://github.com/daschott))

- Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA): using structured parameters with a claim that gets reused between pods may have led to a claim with an invalid state (allocated without a finalizer) which then caused scheduling of pods using the claim to stop. ([#124931](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124931), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))...