* Configurable etcd compaction frequency in GCE ([#59106](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59106), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* [GCE] Apiserver uses `InternalIP` as the most preferred kubelet address type by default. ([#59019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59019), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

### Other notable changes

* [GCE] Apiserver uses `InternalIP` as the most preferred kubelet address type by default. ([#59019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59019), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

### SIG Network

The main milestones for SIG Network this release are the graduation of IPVS-based load balancing and CoreDNS to general availability.

IPVS is an alternative approach to in-cluster load balancing that uses in-kernel hash tables rather than the previous iptables approach, while CoreDNS is a replacement for kube-dns for service discovery.

### SIG Node

* [fluentd-gcp addon] Switch to the image provided by Stackdriver. The Stackdriver Logging Agent container image uses fluentd v0.14.25. ([#59128](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59128), [@bmoyles0117](https://github.com/bmoyles0117))

## Non-user-facing Changes

* Prevent kubelet from getting wedged if initialization of modules returns an error. ([#59020](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59020), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))
* [GCE] Apiserver uses `InternalIP` as the most preferred kubelet address type by default. ([#59019](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59019), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

- DRA: the resource.k8s.io API now uses the v1 API version (introduced in 1.34) as default storage version. Downgrading to 1.33 is not supported. ([#133876](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133876), [@kei01234kei](https://github.com/kei01234kei)) [SIG API Machinery, Etcd and...

- The deprecated taints `node.alpha.kubernetes.io/notReady` and `node.alpha.kubernetes.io/unreachable` are no longer supported or adjusted. These uses should be replaced with `node.kubernetes.io/not-ready` and `node.kubernetes.io/unreachable`
 ([#73001](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73001), [@shivnagarajan](https://github.com/shivnagarajan))

- Added CEL runtime cost calculation into ValidatingAdmissionPolicy, matching the evaluation cost
  restrictions that already apply to CustomResourceDefinition.
  If rule evaluation uses more compute than the limit, the API server aborts the evaluation and the
  admission check that was being performed is aborted; the `failurePolicy` for the ValidatingAdmissionPolicy

	    its position in the array.
	</li>
	<li>An element with a key uses the key as its index. The
	    key must be a non-negative constant
	    <a href="#Representability">representable</a> by
	    a value of type <code>int</code>; and if it is typed
	    it must be of <a href="#Numeric_types">integer type</a>.
	</li>
	<li>An element without a key uses the previous element's index plus one.

- kubeadm init correctly uses `--node-name` and `--cri-socket` when `--config` option is also used ([#71323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71323), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))
- kubeadm: Always pass spec.nodeName as `--hostname-override` for kube-proxy ([#71283](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71283), [@Klaven](https://github.com/Klaven))