* kube-apiserver: Fixed a regression accepting patch requests > 1MB ([#84963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84963), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* kube-apiserver: fixed a bug that could cause a goroutine leak if the apiserver encountered an encoding error serving a watch to a websocket watcher ([#84693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84693), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))

    By the use of this ointment--one shilling the box--
      Allow me to sell you a couple?'

    `You are old,' said the youth, `and your jaws are too weak
      For anything tougher than suet;
    Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak--
      Pray how did you manage to do it?'

    `In my youth,' said his father, `I took to the law,
      And argued each case with my wife;

* 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))
* fixes a memory leak in the kube-controller-manager observed when large numbers of pods with tolerations are created/deleted ([#65339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65339), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Updates konnectivity-network-proxy to v0.0.27. This includes a memory leak fix for the network proxy ([#107188](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107188), [@rata](https://github.com/rata)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- Fixed a bug where startupProbe stopped working after a container's first restart ([#101093](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101093), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]
- Fixed port-forward memory leak for long-running and heavily used connections. ([#99839](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99839), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]

* kube-apiserver: Fixed a regression accepting patch requests > 1MB ([#84963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84963), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* kube-apiserver: fixed a bug that could cause a goroutine leak if the apiserver encountered an encoding error serving a watch to a websocket watcher ([#84693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84693), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))

   *     including those that pass them to this method, with {@link #submit(ClosingCallable,
   *     Executor)} in order to ensure that resources do not leak. Or, to start a pipeline with a
   *     {@link ListenableFuture} that doesn't create values that should be closed, use {@link
   *     ClosingFuture#from}.
   */
  @Deprecated

* Allow setting the Host header in a httpGet probe ([#24292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24292), [@errm](https://github.com/errm))
* Fix goroutine leak in ssh-tunnel healthcheck. ([#24487](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24487), [@cjcullen](https://github.com/cjcullen))

- Fixes a kubelet and kube-apiserver memory leak in default 1.29 configurations related to tracing. ([#126984](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126984), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]

- Fixed a bug where the kube-proxy `EndpointSliceCache` memory experienced a leak. ([#128929](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128929), [@orange30](https://github.com/orange30))