- GCE Internal LoadBalancer sync loop will now release the ILB IP address upon sync failure. An error in ILB forwarding rule creation will no longer leak IP addresses. ([#97740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97740), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

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      // needed to deal with GWT integer overflow
    }
    return hashCode;
  }

  /*
   * Serializes ImmutableLists as their logical contents. This ensures that
   * implementation types do not leak into the serialized representation.
   */
  @J2ktIncompatible // serialization
  static final class SerializedForm implements Serializable {
    final Object[] elements;

    SerializedForm(Object[] elements) {

* Fix resync goroutine leak in ListAndWatch ([#35672](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35672), [@tatsuhiro-t](https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t))

- Fixed a bug where startupProbe stopped working after a container's first restart ([#101093](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101093), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]
- Fixed port-forward memory leak for long-running and heavily used connections. ([#99839](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99839), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]

* Version-guard Kubectl client Guestbook application test against deployments ([#24478](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24478), [@ihmccreery](https://github.com/ihmccreery))
* Fix goroutine leak in ssh-tunnel healthcheck. ([#24487](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24487), [@cjcullen](https://github.com/cjcullen))

* Webhook client credentials configured with `--admission-control-config-file` must include non-default ports in the configured hostnames. For example, a webhook configured to speak to port 8443 on service `mysvc` in namespace `myns` would specify client credentials in a stanza with `name: mysvc.myns.svc:8443`. See https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/extensible-admission-controllers/#authenticate-apiservers...

			if len(qs.XferStats) > 0 {
				tots := qs.XferStats[Total]
				currTransferRate.Value = tots.Curr
				avgTransferRate.Value = tots.Avg
				maxTransferRate.Value = tots.Peak
			}
			ml = []MetricV2{
				activeWorkersCount,
				avgActiveWorkersCount,
				maxActiveWorkersCount,
				currInQueueCount,
				currInQueueBytes,
				avgQueueCount,
				avgQueueBytes,

- Fixed a possible memory leak in the QueueingHint (alpha feature). ([#126962](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126962), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))
- Fixed a potential memory leak in QueueingHint (alpha feature). ([#127016](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127016), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))