* Fix load balancer issues when running zero nodes in Azure vmss. ([#68775](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68775), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fix potential panic when getting azure load balancer status ([#68609](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68609), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Ensure ownership when deleting a load balancer security group ([#74311](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74311), [@hpedrorodrigues](https://github.com/hpedrorodrigues))
* kubelet: updated logic of verifying a static critical pod. ([#75144](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75144), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

- Setting loadBalancerClass in load balancer type of service is available with this PR. 

* Add a label which prevents a node from being added to a cloud load balancer ([#53146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53146), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

unauthenticated. The mitigation may be disabled by setting the `UnauthenticatedHTTP2DOSMitigation` feature gate to `false` (it is enabled by default). An API server fronted by an L7 load balancer that already mitigates these http/2 attacks may choose to disable the kube-apiserver mitigation to avoid disrupting load balancer -> kube-apiserver connections if http/2 requests from multiple clients share the same backend connection. An API server on a private network may opt to disable the kube-apiserver mitigation...

- AWS cloudprovider will ignore provisioning load balancers if the annotation service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-type is external or nlb-ip ([#97975](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97975), [@kish...

- Support the node label `node.kubernetes.io/exclude-from-external-load-balancers` ([#95542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95542), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- For GCE cluster provider, fix bug of not being able to create internal type load balancer for clusters with more than 1000 nodes in a single zone. ([#89902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89902), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Network and Scalability]

* AWS: support mixed plaintext/encrypted ports in ELBs via service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-ports annotation ([#26976](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26976), [@therc](https://github.com/therc))

* Update Dashboard UI version to 1.4.2 ([#35895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35895), [@rf232](https://github.com/rf232))
* Add support for service load balancer source ranges to Azure load balancers. ([#36696](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/36696), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))