- `kubeproxy_conntrack_reconciler_deleted_entries_total` metric can be used to track cumulative sum of conntrack flows cleared by reconciler. ([#130204](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130204), [@aroradaman](https://github.com/aroradaman))

- Updated CNI plugins to v1.7.1 ([#131602](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131602), [@adrianmoisey](https://github.com/adrianmoisey)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Node and Testing]
- Updated `conntrack` reconciler to consider a Service’s target port during cleanup of stale flow entries. ([#130542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130542), [@aroradaman](https://github.com/aroradaman))

- New staging repo has been created for the `EndpointSlice` reconciler. ([#118953](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118953), [@mskrocki](https://github.com/mskrocki))

    * - clusters moving from IPv4 to duakstack will require no changes
    * - clusters moving from IPv6 (while not seen in the wild, we can not rule out their existence) to dualstack will require deleting backend pools (the reconciler will take care of creating correct backendpools)
* Promotes VolumePVCDataSource (Cloning) feature to beta for 1.16 release  ([#81792](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81792), [@j-griffith](https://github.com/j-griffith))

   ([#123273](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123273), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))
- Added alpha-level support for the SuccessPolicy in Jobs.

- kube-proxy now reconciles Service/Endpoint changes with conntrack table and cleans up only stale UDP flow entries ([#127318](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127318), [@aroradaman](https://github.com/aroradaman)) [SIG Network and Windows]

- Fixed the bug where if Endpointslices mirrored from Endpoints by the EndpointSliceMirroring controller they would not reconcile if modified. were not reconciled if modified ([#124131](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124131), [@zyjhtangtang](https://github.com/zyjhtangtang)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- Fix a bug on the endpoints controller that does not reconcile the Endpoint object after this is truncated (it gets more than 1000 endpoints addresses) ([#127417](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127417), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]