- Fix Windows kube-proxy to prevent intermittent deletion of ClusterIP load balancers in HNS when internalTrafficPolicy=Local, ensuring stable service connectivity. ([#134032](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134032), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network and Windows]

        // Note: isUseMultiChannel() checks if actual multi-channel is negotiated with server
        // In mock environment, this will be false until we mock successful negotiation

        // Verify load balancer is initialized
        assertNotNull(channelManager.getLoadBalancer());
    }

    @Test
    void testNetworkInterfaceInfo() throws Exception {
        // Test NetworkInterfaceInfo creation and scoring

     *
     * @return true if enabled
     */
    public boolean isUseMultiChannel() {
        return multiChannelEnabled;
    }

    /**
     * Get the load balancer
     *
     * @return load balancer instance
     */
    public ChannelLoadBalancer getLoadBalancer() {
        return loadBalancer;
    }

    /**
     * Get all channels
     *

- Windows Kubeproxy will use the update load balancer API for load balancer updates, instead of the previous delete and create APIs.

- [KCCM] service controller: change the cloud controller manager to make `providerID` a predicate when synchronizing nodes. This change allows load balancer integrations to ensure that  the `providerID` is set when configuring
  load balancers and targets. ([#117452](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117452), [@alexanderConstantinescu](https://github.com/alexanderConstantinescu)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]

 *           // Services have been initialized and are healthy, start accepting requests...
 *         }
 *         public void failure(Service service) {
 *           // Something failed, at this point we could log it, notify a load balancer, or take
 *           // some other action.  For now we will just exit.
 *           System.exit(1);
 *         }
 *       },
 *       MoreExecutors.directExecutor());
 *

 *           // Services have been initialized and are healthy, start accepting requests...
 *         }
 *         public void failure(Service service) {
 *           // Something failed, at this point we could log it, notify a load balancer, or take
 *           // some other action.  For now we will just exit.
 *           System.exit(1);
 *         }
 *       },
 *       MoreExecutors.directExecutor());
 *

* 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))

- 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]

- **Network**
  - [alpha] Service LB now has alpha support for preserving client source IP ([docs](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/load-balancer/)) ([kubernetes/features#27](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/27))
- **Node**