- [KCCM] drop filtering nodes for the providerID when syncing load balancers, but have changes to the field trigger a re-sync of load balancers. This should ensure that cloud providers which don't specify providerID, can still use the service controller implementation to provision load balancers. ([#117602](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117602), [@alexanderConstantinescu](https://github.com/alexanderConstantinescu))...

unauthenticated. The mitigation may be disabled by setting the `UnauthenticatedHTTP2DOSMitigation` feature gate to `false` (it is enabled by default). An API server fronted by an L7 load balancer that already mitigates these http/2 attacks may choose to disable the kube-apiserver mitigation to avoid disrupting load balancer -> kube-apiserver connections if http/2 requests from multiple clients share the same backend connection. An API server on a private network may opt to disable the kube-apiserver mitigation...

- Fix Windows kube-proxy to prevent intermittent deletion of ClusterIP load balancers in HNS when internalTrafficPolicy=Local, ensuring stable service connectivity. ([#134031](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134031), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network and Windows]

providers now waits for the providerID value to be available before untainting it. This ensures that nodes are not declared Ready without necessary information such as the providerID and zone labels, which are required for integrations like load balancers to function correctly. Cloud providers that do not implement the GetInstanceProviderID method will not require the providerID to be set and will not fail to initialize the node for backward compatibility. ([#123713](https://github.com/kubernetes...

        assertDoesNotThrow(() -> channelManager.shutdown());
    }

    @Test
    void testLoadBalancerAccess() {
        ChannelLoadBalancer balancer = channelManager.getLoadBalancer();
        assertNotNull(balancer);

        // Should return same instance
        assertSame(balancer, channelManager.getLoadBalancer());
    }

    @Test
    void testChannelFailureHandling() throws UnknownHostException {

import jcifs.internal.smb2.io.Smb2WriteRequest;

/**
 * Load balancer for SMB3 Multi-Channel connections
 */
public class ChannelLoadBalancer {

    private final ChannelManager manager;
    private LoadBalancingStrategy strategy;
    private final AtomicInteger roundRobinCounter;

    /**
     * Create channel load balancer
     *
     * @param manager channel manager
     */

    manager.addChannel(channel2);
    
    // Test load balancer selection
    ChannelLoadBalancer balancer = new ChannelLoadBalancer(manager);
    
    // Large transfer should prefer high-bandwidth channel
    Smb2ReadRequest largeRead = new Smb2ReadRequest();
    largeRead.setLength(10485760);  // 10MB
    
    ChannelInfo selected = balancer.selectChannel(largeRead);

- Fix Windows kube-proxy to prevent intermittent deletion of ClusterIP load balancers in HNS when internalTrafficPolicy=Local, ensuring stable service connectivity. ([#134033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134033), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network and Windows]

        // Note: isUseMultiChannel() checks if actual multi-channel is negotiated with server
        // In mock environment, this will be false until we mock successful negotiation

        // Verify load balancer is initialized
        assertNotNull(channelManager.getLoadBalancer());
    }

    @Test
    void testNetworkInterfaceInfo() throws Exception {
        // Test NetworkInterfaceInfo creation and scoring

     *
     * @return true if enabled
     */
    public boolean isUseMultiChannel() {
        return multiChannelEnabled;
    }

    /**
     * Get the load balancer
     *
     * @return load balancer instance
     */
    public ChannelLoadBalancer getLoadBalancer() {
        return loadBalancer;
    }

    /**
     * Get all channels
     *