* Allow user to scale l7 default backend deployment ([#62685](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62685), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))
* Add support to ingest log entries to Stackdriver against new "k8s_container" and "k8s_node" resources. ([#62076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62076), [@qingling128](https://github.com/qingling128))

- Respect grace period...

- Updated `conntrack` reconciler to consider a Service’s target port during cleanup of stale flow entries. ([#130542](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130542), [@aroradaman](https://github.com/aroradaman))

## Changelog since v1.24.10

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Kubelet TCP and HTTP probes are more effective using networking resources: conntrack entries, sockets, ... 

    * 3. Maximum of two entries is allowed in `--service-cluster-ip-range` and they are validated to be dual stacked `i.e. --service-cluster-ip-range=<v4>,<v6> or --service-cluster-ip-range=<v6>,<v4>`
    * 4. Max 20 bit for range (min network bits `<v6>/108` or <v4>/12)

        can fix this mismatch by either calling the model with correctly-shaped
        data, or by relaxing `Input` shape assumptions (note that you can pass
        shapes with `None` entries for axes that are meant to be dynamic). You
        can also disable the input checking entirely by setting
        `model.input_spec = None`.
    *   Several changes have been made to

* fix smb unmount issue on Windows ([#75087](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75087), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixes segmentation fault issue with Protobuf library when log entries are deeply nested. ([#77224](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77224), [@qingling128](https://github.com/qingling128))

- Client-go now exposes two new metrics to monitor the client-go logic that
  generate http.Transports for the clients.
  
  - `rest_client_transport_cache_entries` is a gauge metric
  with the number of existing entries in the internal cache
  
  - `rest_client_transport_create_calls_total` is a counter
  that increments each time a new transport is created, storing
  the result of the operation needed to generate it: hit, miss

* Fix panic create/update CRD when mutating/validating webhook configured. ([#61404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61404), [@hzxuzhonghu](https://github.com/hzxuzhonghu))
* Add support to ingest log entries to Stackdriver against new "k8s_container" and "k8s_node" resources. ([#62076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62076), [@qingling128](https://github.com/qingling128))

* StatefulSet will now fill the `hostname` and `subdomain` fields if they're empty on existing Pods it owns. This allows it to self-correct the issue where StatefulSet Pod DNS entries disappear after upgrading to v1.7.x ([#48327](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48327)). ([#51199](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51199), [@kow3ns](https://github.com/kow3ns))