not yet seen real-world use.)
  
  At this point it should be functionally mostly identical to the iptables
  mode, except that it does not (and will not) support Service NodePorts on
  127.0.0.1. (Also note that there are currently no command-line arguments
  for the nftables-specific config; you will need to use a config file if
  you want to set the equivalent of any of the `--iptables-xxx` options.)

- Extended the NodePorts scheduling plugin to consider hostPorts used by restartable init containers. ([#132040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132040), [@avrittrohwer](https://github.com/avrittrohwer)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

- Reorganized iptables rules to reduce rules in `KUBE-SERVICES` and `KUBE-NODEPORTS`. ([#96959](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96959), [@tssurya](https://github.com/tssurya))

- Added a kube-proxy flag (`--iptables-localhost-nodeports`, default true) to allow disabling NodePort services on loopback addresses. Note: this only applies to iptables mode and ipv4. ([#108250](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108250), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))

* Fix issue of colliding nodePorts when the cluster has services with externalTrafficPolicy=Local ([#64468](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64468), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

- Kube-proxy: fix a bug on UDP `NodePort` Services where stale connection tracking entries may blackhole the traffic directed to the `NodePort` ([#98305](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98305), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

- Added new feature gate `ServiceNodePortStaticSubrange`, to enable the new strategy in the `NodePort` Service port allocators, so the node port range is subdivided and dynamic allocated `NodePort` port for Services are allocated preferentially from the upper range. ([#114418](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114418), [@xuzhenglun](https://github.com/xuzhenglun))

- Added support to the kube-proxy nodePortAddresses / --nodeport-addresses option to
  accept the value "primary", meaning to only listen for NodePort connections
  on the node's primary IPv4 and/or IPv6 address (according to the Node object).
  This is strongly recommended, if you were not previously using
  --nodeport-addresses, to avoid surprising behavior.

- Reduce kube-proxy CPU usage in IPVS mode when a large number of nodePort services exist. ([#79444](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79444), [@cezarsa](https://github.com/cezarsa))

- Fixed azure disk translation issue due to lower case `managed` kind. ([#103439](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103439), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Fixed client IP preservation for NodePort service with protocol SCTP in ipvs. ([#104756](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104756), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn))