* kube-proxy in IPVS mode will stop initiating connections to terminating pods for services with sessionAffinity set. ([#71834](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71834), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))
* kubeadm: improve hostport parsing error messages ([#71258](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71258), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))

* Fix race condition introduced by graceful termination which can lead to a deadlock in kube-proxy ([#72361](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72361), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))
* Support graceful termination with IPVS when deleting a service ([#71895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71895), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

* Fix race condition introduced by graceful termination which can lead to a deadlock in kube-proxy ([#72361](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72361), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))
* Support graceful termination with IPVS when deleting a service ([#71895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71895), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

- Kubernetes now supports update LoadBalancerSourceRanges for AWS NLB([#74692](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74692), [@M00nF1sh](https://github.com/M00nF1sh))
- Kubernetes now supports configure TLS termination for AWS NLB([#74910](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74910), [@M00nF1sh](https://github.com/M00nF1sh))

#### **Other**

*   Pod addresses will now be removed from the list of endpoints when the pod is in graceful termination. ([#54828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54828),[ @freehan](https://github.com/freehan))

- A new sleep action for the `PreStop` lifecycle hook was added, allowing containers to pause for a specified duration before termination. ([#119026](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119026), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))

### Network

- Fix a string comparison bug in IPVS graceful termination where UDP real servers are not deleted. ([#78999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78999), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

    * - Stop mounting the host certificates into fluentd's prometheus-to-sd container
* Fix a bug where pod address is not removed from endpoints object while pod is in graceful termination. ([#54828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54828), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))

- Fixed a bug where hard evictions due to resource pressure allowed pods
  to use the full termination grace period instead of shutting down instantly. 
  This bug also affected force deleted pods. Both cases now receive a termination grace period of 1 second. ([#124063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124063), [@olyazavr](https://github.com/olyazavr))

- Add a `serving` and `terminating` condition to the EndpointSlice API.
  `serving` tracks the readiness of endpoints regardless of their terminating state. This is distinct from `ready` since `ready` is only true when pods are not terminating.