- kube-proxy: a configuration file specified via `--config` is now loaded with strict deserialization, which fails if the config file contains duplicate or unknown fields. This protects against accidentally running with config files that are malformed, mis-indented, or have typos in field names, and getting unexpected behavior....

- Use network.Interface.VirtualMachine.ID to get the binded VM
  Skip standalone VM when reconciling LoadBalancer ([#97639](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97639), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

## Dependencies

### Added

- [`KT-60124`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-60124) K2: Conflicting declarations on extension properties with different upper-bounded type parameter
- [`KT-60259`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-60259) K2: Reflection target is missing on adapted function refernces

* Performance test framework and basic tests for the IPAM controller, to simulate behavior of the four supported modes under lightly loaded and loaded conditions, where load is defined as the number of operations to perform as against the configured kubernetes. ([#61143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61143), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))

- Reduce API server memory when many CRDs are loaded by sharing a single etcd3 client logger across all clients ([#111648](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111648), [@negz](https://github.com/negz)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Use network.Interface.VirtualMachine.ID to get the binded VM
  Skip standalone VM when reconciling LoadBalancer ([#97635](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97635), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- A PersistentVolumeClaim may not have been synced to the controller local cache in time if the PersistentVolumeis bound by an external PV binder (such as kube-scheduler), so Kubernetes will now double check if PVC is not found in order to prevent the volume from being incorrectly reclaimed. ([#67062](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67062), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))...

- Content-type and verb for request metrics are now bounded to a known set. ([#89451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89451), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]

* Audit logging with buffering enabled can increase apiserver memory usage (e.g. up to 200MB in 100-node cluster). The increase is bounded by the buffer size (configurable). Ref: issue [#60500](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60500) ([#61118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61118), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))

- Kubernetes 1.23 is now built with go1.19.4. To match behavior of previous Kubernetes 1.23 patch releases:
  - `kube-apiserver` defaults the GOGC setting to 63, to approximate go1.17 garbage collection memory performance in heavily loaded API servers