- Kube-proxy in nftables mode now allows pods on nodes without local service endpoints to access LoadBalancer Service ExternalIPs (with `externalTrafficPolicy: Local`). Previously, such traffic was dropped. This change brings nftables mode in line with iptables and IPVS modes, allowing traffic to be forwarded to available endpoints elsewhere in the cluster....

- Fixed an issue where the Service LoadBalancer controller was not correctly considering the `service.Status new IPMode` field and excluding the Ports when checking if the status was changed, resulting in the changed field potentially not to update the `service.Status` correctly. ([#125225]...

- Kube-proxy, when using a Service with External or LoadBalancer IPs on UDP services , was consuming a large amount of CPU because it was not filtering by the Service destination port and trying to delete all the UDP entries associated to the service. ([#130505](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130505),...

- Added warnings when creating headless service with set `loadBalancerIP`,`externalIPs` and/or `SessionAffinity`. ([#132214](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132214), [@Peac36](https://github.com/Peac36))