#### kube-proxy:
- Added kube-proxy flags `--ipvs-tcp-timeout`, `--ipvs-tcpfin-timeout`, `--ipvs-udp-timeout` to configure IPVS connection timeouts. ([#85517](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85517), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Network]

* [IPVS] Allow for transparent kube-proxy restarts ([#75283](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75283), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

* You can now use `--ipvs-exclude-cidrs` to specify a list of CIDR's which the IPVS proxier should not touch when cleaning up IPVS rules. ([#62083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62083), [@rramkumar1](https://github.com/rramkumar1))

* fix azure disk list corruption issue ([#77187](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77187), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- 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))

- Set config.BindAddress to IPv4 address `127.0.0.1` if not specified ([#83822](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83822), [@zouyee](https://github.com/zouyee))
- Updated kube-proxy ipvs README with correct grep argument to list loaded ipvs modules ([#83677](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83677), [@pete911](https://github.com/pete911))

* [IPVS] Introduces flag ipvs-strict-arp to configure stricter ARP sysctls, defaulting to false to preserve existing behaviors. This was enabled by default in 1.13.0, which impacted a few CNI plugins. ([#75295](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75295), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

#### **IPVS**

*   You can now use the --cleanup-ipvs flag to tell kube-proxy whether to flush all existing ipvs rules in on startup ([#56036](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56036),[ @m1093782566](https://github.com/m1093782566))

- IPVS: Any ipvs scheduler can now be configured. If a un-usable scheduler is configured `kube-proxy` will re-start and the logs must be checked (same as before but different log printouts). ([#114878](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114878), [@...

so this change will only impact users who have changed their startup.mode to be 'automatic' in /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf. ([#57475](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57475), [@stmcginnis](https://github.com/stmcginnis))

* The IPVS feature gateway is now enabled by default in kubeadm, which makes the  --feature-gates=SupportIPVSProxyMode=true obsolete, and it is no longer supported. ([#60540](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60540), [@m1093782566](https://github.com/m1093782566))...