## Changelog since v1.18.2

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression
 - An issue preventing GCP cloud-controller-manager running out-of-cluster to initialize new Nodes is now fixed. ([#90057](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90057), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG Apps and Cloud Provider]

* Add a new option "--local" to the `kubectl label` ([#33990](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33990), [@asalkeld](https://github.com/asalkeld))
* Initialize podsWithAffinity to avoid scheduler panic ([#33967](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33967), [@xiang90](https://github.com/xiang90))

- An issue preventing GCP cloud-controller-manager running out-of-cluster to initialize new Nodes is now fixed. ([#90057](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90057), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG Apps and Cloud Provider]

- Updated google.golang.org/protobuf to `v1.33.0` to resolve `CVE-2024-24786`. ([#123758](https://gi...

* Use UpdateStatus, not Update, to add LoadBalancerStatus to Federated Ingress.  ([#33605](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33605), [@quinton-hoole](https://github.com/quinton-hoole))
* Initialize podsWithAffinity to avoid scheduler panic ([#33967](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33967), [@xiang90](https://github.com/xiang90))

### Federation
* The --dns-provider argument of 'kubefed init' is now mandatory and does not default to `google-clouddns`. To initialize a Federation control plane with Google Cloud DNS, use the following invocation: 'kubefed init --dns-provider=google-clouddns' ([#42092](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/42092), [@marun](https://github.com/marun))

   * Support kube-master-url flag without kubeconfig

   * Fix concurrent R/Ws in dns.go

   * Fix confusing logging when initialize server

   * Fix printf in cmd/kube-dns/app/server.go

   * Fix version on startup and `--version` flag

   * Support specifying port number for nameserver in stubDomains

#### kube-proxy

- `kubelet` , when using `--cloud-provider=external`, will now initialize the node addresses with the value of `--node-ip` , if it exists, or waits for the cloud provider to assign the addresses. ([#121028](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121028), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))