- 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). ([#122756](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122756), [@hakman](https://github.com/hakman)) [SIG Network]

- Fix bug in CRD Validation Rules (beta) and ValidatingAdmissionPolicy (alpha) where all admission requests could result in `internal error: runtime error: index out of range [3] with length 3 evaluating rule: <rule name>` under certain circumstances. ([#114861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114861), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery,...

* Provides compatibility of fields SizeLimit in types.EmptyDirVolumeSource since v1.7.8 ([#56505](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56505), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882))
* Fixes issue where masquerade rules are flushed in GCE k8s clusters. ([#56728](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56728), [@dnardo](https://github.com/dnardo))