- Headless Services with no ports defined will now create Endpoints correctly, and appear in DNS. ([#67622](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67622), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))
- Prevent `resourceVersion` updates for custom resources on no-op writes. ([#67562](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67562), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita))

- Scheduler now ignores Pod update events if the resourceVersion of old and new Pods are identical. ([#96071](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96071), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.27+ regression in watch stability by serving watch requests without a resourceVersion from the watch cache by default, as in <1.27 (disabling the change in #115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in #115096 to serve these requests from...

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.27+ regression in watch stability by serving watch requests without a resourceVersion from the watch cache by default, as in <1.27 (disabling the change in #115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in #115096 to serve these requests from...

- The `pods/binding` subresource now honors `metadata.uid` and `metadata.resourceVersion` ([#105913](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105913), [@aholic](https://github.com/aholic))
- The kube-proxy sync_proxy_rules_iptables_total metric now gives