### Other notable changes

* Extend TLS timeouts to work around slow arm64 math/big ([#66264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66264), [@joejulian](https://github.com/joejulian))
* GCE: Fixes loadbalancer creation and deletion issues appearing in 1.10.5. ([#66400](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66400), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

* Ensure Azure load balancer cleaned up on 404 or 403 when deleting LoadBalancer services. ([#75256](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75256), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

## Changelog since v1.26.6

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- GCE does not support LoadBalancer Services with ports with different protocols (TCP and UDP) ([#115966](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115966), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Apps and Cloud Provider]

### Feature

- Kube-proxy in nftables mode now allows pods on nodes without local service endpoints to access LoadBalancer Service ExternalIPs (with `externalTrafficPolicy: Local`). Previously, such traffic was dropped. This change brings nftables mode in line with iptables and IPVS modes, allowing traffic to be forwarded to available endpoints elsewhere in the cluster....

* Services of type=LoadBalancer which have no endpoints will now immediately ICMP reject connections, rather than time out. ([#74394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74394), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

- Fixing issue in Winkernel Proxier - Unexpected active TCP connection drops while horizontally scaling the endpoints for a LoadBalancer Service with External Traffic Policy: Local ([#114040](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114040), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network]

- Fix: do not try to delete a LoadBalancer that does not exist ([#105777](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105777), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))

- Fixes the kubelet's ability to restart static pods (#105075, @rphillips) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Kube-proxy(ipvs mode) : delete stale conntrack UDP entries for loadbalancer ingress IP. (#105650, @VivekThrivikraman-est) [SIG Network]
- Release-note Removed error message label from kubelet_started_pods_errors_total metric (#105213, @yxxhero) [SIG Instrumentation and Node]

## Dependencies

- Fixed an issue where the Service LoadBalancer controller was not correctly considering the `service.Status new IPMode` field and excluding the Ports when checking if the status was changed, resulting in the changed field potentially not to update the `service.Status` correctly. ([#125225]...

- Kube-proxy, when using a Service with External or LoadBalancer IPs on UDP services , was consuming a large amount of CPU because it was not filtering by the Service destination port and trying to delete all the UDP entries associated to the service. ([#130505](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130505),...