* Fix a scalability issue where high rates of event writes degraded etcd performance. ([#64539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64539), [@ccding](https://github.com/ccding))
* Properly manage security groups for loadbalancer services on OpenStack. ([#65373](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65373), [@multi-io](https://github.com/multi-io))

* azure: add PrimaryAvailabilitySet to config, only use nodes in that set in the loadbalancer pool ([#34526](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34526), [@colemickens](https://github.com/colemickens))

* Fix panic in ControllerManager on GCE when it has a problem with creating external loadbalancer healthcheck ([#52646](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52646), [@gmarek](https://github.com/gmarek))

### Other notable changes

* Extend TLS timeouts to work around slow arm64 math/big ([#66264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66264), [@joejulian](https://github.com/joejulian))
* GCE: Fixes loadbalancer creation and deletion issues appearing in 1.10.5. ([#66400](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66400), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

* Ensure Azure load balancer cleaned up on 404 or 403 when deleting LoadBalancer services. ([#75256](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75256), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Bug fix. Incoming UDP packets not reach newly deployed services ([#32561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32561), [@zreigz](https://github.com/zreigz))
* Services of type loadbalancer consume both loadbalancer and nodeport quota. ([#39364](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39364), [@zhouhaibing089](https://github.com/zhouhaibing089))

### StatefulSet

- Fixed a bug involving Services of type `LoadBalancer` with multiple IPs and a `LoadBalancerSourceRanges` that overlaps the node IP. ([#109826](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109826), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

}

// performs a http request to remote endpoint to check if deployment id of remote endpoint is same as
// local cluster deployment id. This is to prevent replication to self, especially in case of a loadbalancer
// in front of MinIO.
func checkRemoteEndpoint(ctx context.Context, epURL *url.URL) error {
	reqURL := &url.URL{
		Scheme: epURL.Scheme,
		Host:   epURL.Host,

## Changelog since v1.26.6

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- GCE does not support LoadBalancer Services with ports with different protocols (TCP and UDP) ([#115966](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115966), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Apps and Cloud Provider]

### Feature

- Kube-proxy in nftables mode now allows pods on nodes without local service endpoints to access LoadBalancer Service ExternalIPs (with `externalTrafficPolicy: Local`). Previously, such traffic was dropped. This change brings nftables mode in line with iptables and IPVS modes, allowing traffic to be forwarded to available endpoints elsewhere in the cluster....