- 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

- 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),...

- Added `ServedVersions` field to `StorageVersion` API. ([#118386](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118386), [@Richabanker](https://github.com/Richabanker))
- Added `IP mode` field to loadbalancer status ingress. ([#118895](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118895), [@RyanAoh](https://github.com/RyanAoh))