- Fix bug where loadbalancer deletion gets stuck because of missing resource group [#75198](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/75198) ([#93962](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93962), [@phiphi282](https://github.com/phiphi282)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Fixed a race condition in the iptables mode of kube-proxy in `1.27` and later
  that could result in some updates getting lost (e.g., when a service gets a
  new endpoint, the rules for the new endpoint might not be added until
  much later). ([#122204](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122204), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

- kubeadm now allows mixing of init/cluster and join configuration in a single YAML file (although a warning gets printed in this case).  ([#69426](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69426), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))

### Bug or Regression

- Fixes a race condition in the iptables mode of kube-proxy in 1.27 and later
  that could result in some updates getting lost (e.g., when a service gets a
  new endpoint, the rules for the new endpoint might not be added until
  much later). ([#122815](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122815), [@wedaly](https://github.com/wedaly)) [SIG Network]

- Fixed a bug that caused a DaemonSet rolling update to hang when its pod gets stuck at terminating.  ([#77773](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77773), [@DaiHao](https://github.com/DaiHao))

        * At Metadata audit level or higher, an annotation with key "mutation.webhook.admission.k8s.io/round_{round idx}_index_{order idx}" gets logged with JSON payload indicating a webhook gets invoked for given request and whether it mutated the object or not.

- The calculation of pod UIDs for static pods has changed to ensure each static pod gets a unique value - this will cause all static pod containers to be recreated/restarted if an in-place kubelet upgrade from 1.20 to 1.21 is performed. Note that draining pods before upgrading the kubelet across minor versions is the supported upgrade...

- [`KT-62022`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-62022) K1 False positive EXPOSED_FUNCTION_RETURN_TYPE on generics with anonymous object types
- [`KT-58751`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-58751) Definitely non-nullable type gets lost with star projection
- [`KT-56624`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-56624) "Unresolved reference" with import alias and enum constructor call

- Fix a bug where loadbalancer deletion gets stuck because of missing resource group. ([#93962](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93962), [@phiphi282](https://github.com/phiphi282))

  
  Fixed multiple iptables proxy regressions introduced in 1.22:
  
    - When using Services with SessionAffinity, client affinity for an
      endpoint now gets broken when that endpoint becomes non-ready
      (rather than continuing until the endpoint is fully deleted).
  
    - Traffic to a service IP now starts getting rejected (as opposed to