* vSphere Cloud Provider supports VMs provisioned on vSphere v1.6.5 ([#59519](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59519), [@abrarshivani](https://github.com/abrarshivani))
* Allow node IPAM controller to configure IPAMFromCluster mode to use IP aliases instead of routes in GCP. ([#59688](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59688), [@jingax10](https://github.com/jingax10))

### Other notable changes

* Backport of the IPAM allocator enhancements to 1.8 branch. ([#62041](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62041), [@satyasm](https://github.com/satyasm))

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- Reduced log verbosity for high-frequency, low-value log entries in Job, IPAM, and ReplicaSet controllers by adjusting them to V(2), V(4) and V(4) respectively. This change minimizes log noise while maintaining access to these logs when needed. ([#130591](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130591), [@fmuyassarov]...

- Promote `IPv6DualStack` feature to stable.
  Controller Manager flags for the node IPAM controller have slightly changed:

- Metric `running_managed_controllers` is enabled for Node IPAM controller in KCM. ([#111466](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111466), [@jprzychodzen](https://github.com/jprzychodzen))

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