* Fix kubelet errors in AArch64 with huge page sizes smaller than 1MiB ([#78495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78495), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge))
* kube-addon-manager has been updated to v9.0.2 to fix a bug in leader election (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80575) ([#80861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80861), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

* Flush conntrack state for removed/changed UDP Services ([#22573](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/22573), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))
* Allow setting the Host header in a httpGet probe ([#24292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24292), [@errm](https://github.com/errm))

* Use separate client for leader election in scheduler to avoid starving leader election by regular scheduler operations. ([#53793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53793), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

* Flush conntrack state for removed/changed UDP Services ([#22573](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/22573), [@freehan](https://github.com/freehan))
* Allow setting the Host header in a httpGet probe ([#24292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24292), [@errm](https://github.com/errm))

    * faster handoff when a leader-elected process is gracefully terminated.
* Make volume binder resilient to races between main schedule loop and async binding operation  ([#72045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72045), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

### Bug or Regression

- Client-go: fixes potential data races retrying requests using a custom io.Reader body; with this fix, only requests with no body or with string / []byte / runtime.Object bodies can be retried ([#113933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113933), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]