- Kube-proxy uses  field-selector clusterIP!=None on Services to avoid watching for Headless Services, reduce  unnecessary network bandwidth ([#126769](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126769), [@Sakuralbj](https://github.com/Sakuralbj)) [SIG Network]

    executeSynchronously("/").assertBody("retry success")

    // The call that seeds the connection pool.
    listener.removeUpToEvent(CallEnd::class.java)

    // The ResponseFailed event is not necessarily fatal!
    listener.removeUpToEvent(ConnectionAcquired::class.java)
    listener.removeUpToEvent(ResponseFailed::class.java)
    listener.removeUpToEvent(ConnectionReleased::class.java)

* UDP connections now support graceful termination in IPVS mode ([#71515](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71515), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))
* Fix a potential bug that scheduler preempts unnecessary pods. ([#70898](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70898), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

* Kubernetes version command line parameter in kubeadm has been updated to drop an unnecessary redirection from ci/latest.txt to ci-cross/latest.txt. Users should know exactly where the builds are stored on Google Cloud storage buckets from now on. For example for 1.9 and 1.10, users can specify ci/latest-1.9 and ci/latest-1.10 as the CI...

* Fix log spam due to unnecessary status update when node is deleted. ([#45923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45923), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

- Fix handling of aws-load-balancer-security-groups annotation. Security-Groups assigned with this annotation are no longer modified by kubernetes which is the expected behaviour of most users. Also no unnecessary Security-Groups are created anymore if this annotation is used. ([#88690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88690), [@Elias481](https://github.com/Elias481)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

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