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...

- [cloud-provider] Respected the `exclude-from-external-load-balancers=false` label. ([#131085](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131085), [@kayrus](https://github.com/kayrus)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]

### API Change

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...

 *           // Services have been initialized and are healthy, start accepting requests...
 *         }
 *         public void failure(Service service) {
 *           // Something failed, at this point we could log it, notify a load balancer, or take
 *           // some other action.  For now we will just exit.
 *           System.exit(1);
 *         }
 *       },
 *       MoreExecutors.directExecutor());
 *

    }

    /**
     * Returns an array of available data store names discovered from plugin JAR files.
     * This method implements a time-based caching mechanism that refreshes the list
     * every 60 seconds to balance performance with up-to-date plugin discovery.
     *
     * @return array of data store names sorted alphabetically, never null
     */
    public String[] getDataStoreNames() {

   * if {@code n == 0}.
   *
   * <p><b>Warning:</b> the result takes <i>O(n log n)</i> space, so use cautiously.
   *
   * <p>This uses an efficient binary recursive algorithm to compute the factorial with balanced
   * multiplies. It also removes all the 2s from the intermediate products (shifting them back in at
   * the end).
   *
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if {@code n < 0}
   */

- Windows Kubeproxy will use the update load balancer API for load balancer updates, instead of the previous delete and create APIs.