- FieldManager no longer owns fields that get reset before the object is persisted (e.g. "status wiping"). ([#99661](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99661), [@kevindelgado](https://github.com/kevindelgado)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Testing]

- Fixing issue with Winkernel Proxier - IPV6 load balancer policies are missing when service is configured with ipFamilyPolicy: RequireDualStack ([#115503](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115503), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network and Windows]

* Fixed issue 63608, which is that under rare circumstances the ResourceQuota admission controller could lose track of an request in progress and time out after waiting 10 seconds for a decision to be made. ([#64598](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64598), [@MikeSpreitzer](https://github.com/MikeSpreitzer))

- Kubeadm: Ensured waiting for `apiserver` uses a local client that doesn't reach to the control plane endpoint and instead reaches directly to the local API server endpoint. ([#134265](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134265), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

  `sync_partial_proxy_rules_duration_seconds` (in addition to the existing\n`sync_proxy_rules_duration_seconds`),
  giving better information about the duration of each \nsync type, rather than
  only giving a weighted average of the two sync types together. ([#117787](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117787), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

- Kubeadm: waiting for etcd learner member to be started before promoting during 'kubeadm join' ([#136366](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/136366), [@dlipovetsky](https://github.com/dlipovetsky)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Fix memory leak on kube-scheduler preemption ([#111804](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111804), [@amewayne](https://github.com/amewayne)) [SIG Scheduling]
- Fixing issue on Windows nodes where HostProcess containers may not be created as expected. ([#110965](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110965), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset)) [SIG Node and Windows]

* [metrics-server addon] Restore connecting to nodes via IP addresses ([#76819](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76819), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))
* Fixes a NPD bug on GCI, so that it disables glog writing to files for log-counter ([#76211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76211), [@wangzhen127](https://github.com/wangzhen127))

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### Bug or Regression

- --feature-gate=InOrderInformers (default on), causes informers to process watch streams in order as opposed to grouping updates for the same item close together.  Binaries embedding client-go, but not wiring the featuregates can disable by setting the `KUBE_FEATURE_InOrderInformers=false`. ([#129568](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129568), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k)) [SIG API Machinery]