* kube-apiserver: Fixed a regression accepting patch requests > 1MB ([#84963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84963), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* kube-apiserver: fixed a bug that could cause a goroutine leak if the apiserver encountered an encoding error serving a watch to a websocket watcher ([#84693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84693), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))

* Fix an issue where AWS tear-down leaks an DHCP Option Set. ([#38645](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38645), [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))

### Juju

- Added memory tracking to scheduler performance tests to help detect memory leaks and monitored memory usage patterns while running `scheduler_perf`. ([#132910](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132910), [@utam0k](https://github.com/utam0k)) [SIG Scheduling and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Bump sigs.k8s.io/apiserver-network-proxy/konnectivity-client to v0.0.30, fixing goroutine leaks in kube-apiserver. ([#108440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108440), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

- 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]

* kube-apiserver: Fixed a regression accepting patch requests > 1MB ([#84963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84963), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* kube-apiserver: fixed a bug that could cause a goroutine leak if the apiserver encountered an encoding error serving a watch to a websocket watcher ([#84693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84693), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))

* kube-apiserver: Fixed a regression accepting patch requests > 1MB ([#84963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84963), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* kube-apiserver: fixed a bug that could cause a goroutine leak if the apiserver encountered an encoding error serving a watch to a websocket watcher ([#84693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84693), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))

- cpumanager will now rollback state if updateContainerCPUSet failed, indicating that the container start failed. This change will prevent CPU leaks. ([#67430](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67430), [@choury](https://github.com/choury))

* Fix a scalability issue where high rates of event writes degraded etcd performance. ([#64539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64539), [@ccding](https://github.com/ccding))
* fixes a memory leak in the kube-controller-manager observed when large numbers of pods with tolerations are created/deleted ([#65339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65339), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fixed a bug where the kube-proxy `EndpointSliceCache` memory experienced a leak. ([#128929](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128929), [@orange30](https://github.com/orange30))