- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/92250
  
    To address this, the new debian-hyperkube-base image (v1.1.0) uses the
    debian-iptables base image (v12.1.0), which includes iptables-wrapper, a
    script used to determine the correct iptables mode to run in. ([#92494](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92494), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Release]

  * Kube-Proxy now defaults to an iptables-based proxy. If the --proxy-mode flag is
specified while starting kube-proxy (‘userspace’ or ‘iptables’), the flag value
will be respected. If the flag value is not specified, the kube-proxy respects
the Node object annotation: ‘net.beta.kubernetes.io/proxy-mode’. If the
annotation is not specified, then ‘iptables’ mode is the default. If kube-proxy

- Bumped `distroless-iptables` to `0.3.2` based on Go `1.21.1`. ([#120527](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120527), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato))
- Bumped `distroless-iptables` to `0.3.3` based on Go `1.21.2`. ([#121073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121073), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato))

    - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/92250
  
    To address this, the new debian-hyperkube-base image (v1.1.0) uses the
    debian-iptables base image (v12.1.0), which includes iptables-wrapper, a
    script used to determine the correct iptables mode to run in. ([#92493](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92493), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Release]

- Kubernetes is now built with go 1.21.7
  - update distroless-iptables to v0.4.5 ([#123229](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123229), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### 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

    - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/92250
  
    To address this, the new debian-hyperkube-base image (v1.1.0) uses the
    debian-iptables base image (v12.1.0), which includes iptables-wrapper, a
    script used to determine the correct iptables mode to run in. ([#92495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92495), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Release]

- Update `kube-proxy` base image `debian-iptables` to v1.6.2 to pickup [documentation](https://github.com/kubernetes/release/pull/2106)
  \n"- `debian-iptables`: select nft mode if ntf lines > legacy lines, matching [iptables-wrappers](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/iptables-wrappers/)" ([#102590](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102590), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder))

- The userspace proxy now respects the IPTables proxy's minSyncInterval parameter. ([#71735](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71735), [@dcbw](https://github.com/dcbw))

* Bump up version number of debian-base, debian-hyperkube-base and debian-iptables.  ([#67026](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67026), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))
    * Also updates dependencies of users of debian-base.
    * debian-base version 0.3.1 is already available.

### Feature

- Kubernetes is now built with Golang 1.16.10 (#106224, @cpanato) [SIG Cloud Provider, Instrumentation, Release and Testing]
- Update debian-base, debian-iptables, setcap images to pick up CVE fixes
  - Debian-base to v1.9.0
  - Debian-iptables to v1.6.7
  - setcap to v2.0.4 (#106147, @cpanato) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Failing Test