- Kube-apiserver: the insecure address flags `--address`, `--insecure-bind-address`, `--port` and `--insecure-port` (inert since 1.20) are removed ([#106859](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106859), [@knight42](https://github.com/knight42))

--require-kubeconfig flag, removed default --kubeconfig value (([#58367](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58367), [@zhangxiaoyu-zidif](https://github.com/zhangxiaoyu-zidif))

* The public-address-override, address, and port flags have been removed and replaced by bind-address, insecure-bind-address, and insecure-port, respectively. They are marked as deprecated in [#36604](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36604), which is more than a year ago.  ([#59018](https://github.com/kub...

            }
        }
        response.contentType(mimeType);
    }

    /**
     * Gets the client IP address from the request.
     * Checks X-Forwarded-For header before using remote address.
     *
     * @param request the HTTP servlet request
     * @return the client IP address
     */
    public String getClientIp(final HttpServletRequest request) {

    val addressE = decodeIpv6("2001:db8::1:0:0:1")!!
    assertThat(canonicalizeInetAddress(addressE)).isEqualTo(addressE)

    val addressF = decodeIpv6("0:0:0:0:0:ffff:7f00:1")!!
    assertThat(canonicalizeInetAddress(addressF)).isEqualTo(addressB)

    val addressG = decodeIpv6("0:0:0:0:0:ffff:c0a8:1")!!
    assertThat(canonicalizeInetAddress(addressG)).isEqualTo(addressC)
  }

* Fixed GlusterFS volumes taking too long to time out ([#48709](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48709), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
* The IP address and port for kube-proxy metrics server is now configurable via flag `--metrics-bind-address` ([#48625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48625), [@mrhohn](https://github.com/mrhohn))
  * Special notice for kube-proxy in 1.7+ (including 1.7.0):

   *
   * When a URL is requested, it may be in the context of another URL.
   *
   *  * **Embedded resources like images and iframes** in browsers use the context as the page in
   *    the address bar and the subject is the URL of an embedded resource.
   *
   *  * **Potentially-destructive navigations such as HTTP POST calls** use the context as the page

     *     represented as a combination of scheme, host and port. When empty, the origin is that of
     *     the `streamId`.
     * @param protocol an ALPN protocol, such as `h2`.
     * @param host an IP address or hostname.
     * @param port the IP port associated with the service.
     * @param maxAge time in seconds that this alternative is considered fresh.
     */
    fun alternateService(
      streamId: Int,

 *  Fix: Change `Authenticator`'s `Route` parameter to be nullable. This was marked as non-null but
    could be called with null in some cases.
 *  Fix: Don't create malformed URLs when `MockWebServer` is reached via an IPv6 address.
 *  Fix: Don't crash if the system default authenticator is null.
 *  Fix: Don't crash generating elliptic curve certificates on Android.
 *  Fix: Don't crash doing platform detection on RoboVM.

 * ```
 *
 * The [CacheControl] class can configure request caching directives and parse response caching
 * directives. It even offers convenient constants [CacheControl.FORCE_NETWORK] and
 * [CacheControl.FORCE_CACHE] that address the use cases above.
 *
 * [rfc_7234]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234
 */
class Cache internal constructor(
  directory: Path,
  maxSize: Long,
  fileSystem: FileSystem,
  taskRunner: TaskRunner,

## Changelog since v1.27.15

## Important Security Information

This release contains changes that address the following vulnerabilities:

### CVE-2024-5321: Incorrect permissions on Windows containers logs

A security issue was discovered in Kubernetes clusters with Windows nodes