- Endpoint controller requeues service after an endpoint deletion event occurs to confirm that deleted endpoints are undesired to mitigate the effects of an out of sync endpoint cache. ([#93030](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93030), [@swetharepakula](https://github.com/swetharepakula)) [SIG Apps and 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). ([#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]

  
  Fixed multiple iptables proxy regressions introduced in 1.22:
  
    - When using Services with SessionAffinity, client affinity for an
      endpoint now gets broken when that endpoint becomes non-ready
      (rather than continuing until the endpoint is fully deleted).
  
    - Traffic to a service IP now starts getting rejected (as opposed to
      merely dropped) as soon as there are no longer any *usable*

- Fix a bug on the endpoint slices mirroring controller where endpoint NotReadyAddresses were mirrored as Ready to the corresponding EndpointSlice ([#102683](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102683), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Apps and Network]

    * --alpha-endpoint-reconciler-type=(master-count, lease, none) (default
    * "master-count"). The original reconciler is 'master-count'. The 'lease'
    * reconciler uses the storageapi and a TTL to keep alive an endpoint within the
    * `kube-apiserver-endpoint` storage namespace. The 'none' reconciler is a noop

message EndpointAddress {
  // The IP of this endpoint.
  // May not be loopback (127.0.0.0/8 or ::1), link-local (169.254.0.0/16 or fe80::/10),
  // or link-local multicast (224.0.0.0/24 or ff02::/16).
  optional string ip = 1;

  // The Hostname of this endpoint
  // +optional
  optional string hostname = 3;

  // Optional: Node hosting this endpoint. This can be used to determine endpoints local to a node.

- Kubeadm: make sure that `kubeadm init/join` always use a URL scheme (unix:// on Linux and npipe:// on Windows) when passing a value to the `--container-runtime-endpoint` kubelet flag. This flag's value is taken from the kubeadm...

* Allows changing nodeName in endpoint update. ([#68575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68575), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj))

- Add Endpoint Slice Controller for managing new EndpointSlice resource, disabled by default. ([#81048](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81048), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))