### Other notable changes

* Fix unintended change of Service.spec.ports[].nodePort during kubectl apply ([#24180](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24180), [@AdoHe](https://github.com/AdoHe))
* Flush conntrack state for removed/changed UDP Services ([#22573](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/22573), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))

- Kube-proxy: remove deprecated --cleanup-ipvs flag of kube-proxy, and make --cleanup flag always to flush IPVS ([#97336](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97336), [@maaoBit](https://github.com/maaoBit)) [SIG Network]

#### **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))

* Bridge off-cluster traffic into services by masquerading. ([#24429](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24429), [@cjcullen](https://github.com/cjcullen))
* Flush conntrack state for removed/changed UDP Services ([#22573](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/22573), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))

- `--log-flush-frequency` had no effect in several commands or was missing. Help and warning texts were not always using the right format for a command (`add_dir_header` instead of `add-dir-header`). Fixing this included cleaning up flag handling in component-base/logs: that package no longer adds flags to the global flag sets. Commands which want the klog and `--log-flush-frequency` flags must explicitly call `logs.AddFlags`; the new `cli.Run`...