- The Endpoints controller will now set the `endpoints.kubernetes.io/over-capacity` annotation to "warning" when an Endpoints resource contains more than 1000 addresses. In a future release, the controller will truncate Endpoints that exceed this limit. The EndpointSlice API can be used to support significantly larger number of addresses. ([#99975](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99975), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps and Network]

#### kubectl:

--require-kubeconfig flag, removed default --kubeconfig value (([#58367](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58367), [@zhangxiaoyu-zidif](https://github.com/zhangxiaoyu-zidif))

* The public-address-override, address, and port flags have been removed and replaced by bind-address, insecure-bind-address, and insecure-port, respectively. They are marked as deprecated in [#36604](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36604), which is more than a year ago.  ([#59018](https://github.com/kub...

- GCE Internal LoadBalancer sync loop will now release the ILB IP address upon sync failure. An error in ILB forwarding rule creation will no longer leak IP addresses. ([#97740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97740), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]

## Dependencies

### Added

* kubelets that specify `--cloud-provider` now only report addresses in Node status as determined by the cloud provider ([#65594](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65594), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
   * kubelet serving certificate rotation now reacts to changes in reported node addresses, and will request certificates for addresses set by an external cloud provider

* Updated priority of mirror pod according to PriorityClassName. ([#58485](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58485), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

- Added warnings to the Services API. Kubernetes now warns for Services in the case of:
  - IPv4 addresses with leading zeros
  - IPv6 address in non-canonical format (RFC 5952) ([#114505](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114505), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

### SIG OpenStack

* Provide a meaningful error message in the openstack cloud provider when no valid IP address can be found for a node, rather than just the first address of the node, which leads to a load balancer error if that address is a hostname or DNS name instead of an IP address. ([#64318](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64318), [@gonzolino](https://github.com/gonzolino))

* To allow the userspace proxy to work correctly on multi-interface hosts when using the non-default-route interface, you may now set the `bindAddress` configuration option to an IP address assigned to a network interface.  The proxy will use that IP address for any required NAT operations instead of the IP address of the interface which has the default route. ([#48613](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48613), [@dcbw](https://github.com/dcbw))

* Only use the first IP address got from instance metadata. This is because Azure CNI would set up a list of IP addresses in instance metadata, while only the first one is the Node's IP. ([#71736](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71736), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))