- For GCE cluster provider, fix bug of not being able to create internal type load balancer for clusters with more than 1000 nodes in a single zone. ([#89902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89902), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Network and Scalability]

  - [Changes to Addons](#changes-to-addons)
    - [Dashboard](#dashboard)
    - [DNS](#dns)
    - [DNS Autoscaler](#dns-autoscaler)
    - [Cluster Autoscaler](#cluster-autoscaler-1)
    - [Cluster Load Balancing](#cluster-load-balancing)
    - [etcd Empty Dir Cleanup](#etcd-empty-dir-cleanup)
    - [Fluentd](#fluentd)
    - [Heapster](#heapster)
    - [Registry](#registry)

  - [alpha] Creating a `Federated Ingress` is as simple as submitting
    an `Ingress` creation request to the Federation API Server. The
    Federation control system then creates and maintains a single
    global virtual IP to load balance incoming HTTP(S) traffic across
    some or all the registered clusters, across all regions. Google's
    GCE L7 LoadBalancer is the first supported implementation, and
	is available in this release.

external cloud providers now waits for the providerID value to be available before untainting it. This ensures that nodes are not declared Ready without necessary information such as the providerID and zone labels, which are required for integrations like load balancers to function correctly. Cloud providers that do not implement the GetInstanceProviderID method will not require the providerID to be set and will not fail to initialize the node for backward compatibility. ([#123713](https://github.com/ku...

* Ensure ownership when deleting a load balancer security group ([#74311](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74311), [@hpedrorodrigues](https://github.com/hpedrorodrigues))
* kubelet: updated logic of verifying a static critical pod. ([#75144](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75144), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

#### Load Balancing
* [stable] Source IP Preservation - change Cloud load-balancer strategy to health-checks and respond to health check only on nodes that host pods for the service. See [Create an External Load Balancer - Preserving the client source IP](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/create-external-load-balancer/#preserving-the-client-source-ip).

* support for mounting local-ssds on GCI ([#27143](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/27143), [@adityakali](https://github.com/adityakali))
* AWS: support mixed plaintext/encrypted ports in ELBs via service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-ports annotation ([#26976](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26976), [@therc](https://github.com/therc))

unauthenticated. The mitigation may be enabled by setting the `UnauthenticatedHTTP2DOSMitigation` feature gate to `true` (it is disabled by default). An API server fronted by an L7 load balancer that already mitigates these http/2 attacks may choose not to enable the kube-apiserver mitigation to avoid disrupting load balancer → kube-apiserver connections if http/2 requests from multiple clients share the same backend connection. An API server on a private network may choose not to enable the kube-apiserver...

is unauthenticated. The mitigation may be disabled by setting the `UnauthenticatedHTTP2DOSMitigation` feature gate to `false` (it is enabled by default). An API server fronted by an L7 load balancer that already mitigates these http/2 attacks may choose to disable the kube-apiserver mitigation to avoid disrupting load balancer -> kube-apiserver connections if http/2 requests from multiple clients share the same backend connection. An API server on a private network may opt to disable the kube-apiserver...

### Provider-specific Notes

#### Various

   Core changes:

  * Support for load balancers with source ranges

#### AWS

Core changes:

  * Support for ELBs with complex configurations: better subnet selection with
multiple subnets, and internal ELBs