### Bug or Regression

- Avoid GCE API calls when initializing GCE CloudProvider for Kubelets.
  Avoid unnecessary GCE API calls when adding IP alises or reflecting them in Node object in GCE cloud provider. ([#96864](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96864), [@tosi3k](https://github.com/tosi3k)) [SIG Apps, Cloud Provider and Network]

* UDP connections now support graceful termination in IPVS mode ([#71515](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71515), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))
* Fix a potential bug that scheduler preempts unnecessary pods. ([#70898](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70898), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

    executeSynchronously("/").assertBody("retry success")

    // The call that seeds the connection pool.
    listener.removeUpToEvent(CallEnd::class.java)

    // The ResponseFailed event is not necessarily fatal!
    listener.removeUpToEvent(ConnectionAcquired::class.java)
    listener.removeUpToEvent(ResponseFailed::class.java)
    listener.removeUpToEvent(ConnectionReleased::class.java)

- Fix handling of aws-load-balancer-security-groups annotation. Security-Groups assigned with this annotation are no longer modified by kubernetes which is the expected behaviour of most users. Also no unnecessary Security-Groups are created anymore if this annotation is used. ([#88691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88691), [@Elias481](https://github.com/Elias481)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Optimized `NodeUnschedulable` Filter to avoid unnecessary calculations. ([#119399](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119399), [@wackxu](https://github.com/wackxu))

        `compile()` compiles the model's training, evaluation, and inference
        steps to [XLA](https://www.tensorflow.org/xla). Note that
        `jit_compile=True` may not necessarily work for all models.
    *   Added DTensor-related Keras APIs under `tf.keras.dtensor` namespace. The
        APIs are still classified as experimental. You are welcome to try it

- Fixed an issue calculating total CPU usage reported for Windows nodes. ([#122999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122999), [@marosset](https://github.com/marosset))
- Fixed an issue to ignore unnecessary node events and improve daemonset controller performance. ([#121669](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121669), [@xigang](https://github.com/xigang))

* Kubernetes version command line parameter in kubeadm has been updated to drop an unnecessary redirection from ci/latest.txt to ci-cross/latest.txt. Users should know exactly where the builds are stored on Google Cloud storage buckets from now on. For example for 1.9 and 1.10, users can specify ci/latest-1.9 and ci/latest-1.10 as the CI...

* Kubernetes version command line parameter in kubeadm has been updated to drop an unnecessary redirection from ci/latest.txt to ci-cross/latest.txt. Users should know exactly where the builds are stored on Google Cloud storage buckets from now on. For example for 1.9 and 1.10, users can specify ci/latest-1.9 and ci/latest-1.10 as the CI...

- Fixes creationTimestamp: null causing unnecessary writes to etcd ([#116865](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116865), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]