### Bug or Regression

- Fixes a race condition in the iptables mode of kube-proxy in 1.27 and later
  that could result in some updates getting lost (e.g., when a service gets a
  new endpoint, the rules for the new endpoint might not be added until
  much later). ([#122815](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122815), [@wedaly](https://github.com/wedaly)) [SIG Network]

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes a race condition in the iptables mode of kube-proxy in 1.27 and later
  that could result in some updates getting lost (e.g., when a service gets a
  new endpoint, the rules for the new endpoint might not be added until
  much later). ([#122757](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122757), [@hakman](https://github.com/hakman)) [SIG Network]

For more information and for updates on resolution of this issue, see [#51899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/51899).

- Failed pods associated with a job with `parallelism = 1` are recreated by the job controller honoring exponential backoff delay again. However, for jobs with `parallelism > 1`, pods might be created without exponential backoff delay. ([#115021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115021), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita)) [SIG Apps]

- Failed pods associated with a job with `parallelism = 1` are recreated by the job controller honoring exponential backoff delay again. However, for jobs with `parallelism > 1`, pods might be created without exponential backoff delay. ([#115022](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115022), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita)) [SIG Apps]

- Fixed a bug around restarting init containers in the right order relative to normal containers with `SidecarContainers` feature enabled. ([#120269](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120269), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42))

- Fixed a regression since 1.24 in the scheduling framework when overriding MultiPoint plugins (e.g. default plugins).
  The incorrect loop logic might lead to a plugin being loaded multiple times, consequently preventing any Pod from being scheduled, which is unexpected. ([#122371](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122371), [@caohe](https://github.com/caohe)) [SIG Scheduling]