- The --leader-elect* CLI args are now honored correctly in scheduler. (#106130, @Huang-Wei) [SIG Scheduling]
- The kube-proxy sync_proxy_rules_iptables_total metric now gives
  the correct number of rules, rather than being off by one.
  
  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

- Text logging in Kubernetes components now uses [textlogger](https://pkg.go.dev/k8s.io/klog/v2@v2.120.0/textlogger). The same split streams of info and error log entries with buffering of info entries is now also supported for text output (off by default, alpha feature). Previously, this was only supported for JSON. Performance is better also without split streams. ([#114672](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114672), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

* Allow setting the Host header in a httpGet probe ([#24292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24292), [@errm](https://github.com/errm))
* Bridge off-cluster traffic into services by masquerading. ([#24429](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24429), [@cjcullen](https://github.com/cjcullen))

* Incremental improvements to kubelet e2e tests ([#24426](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24426), [@pwittrock](https://github.com/pwittrock))
* Bridge off-cluster traffic into services by masquerading. ([#24429](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24429), [@cjcullen](https://github.com/cjcullen))

* Fixed binding of block PersistentVolumes / PersistentVolumeClaims when BlockVolume feature is off. ([#84049](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84049), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

- In-tree cloud providers are now switched off by default. Please use `DisableCloudProviders` and `DisableKubeletCloudCredentialProvider` feature flags if you still need this functionality. ([#117503](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117503), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- Kubeadm: added the "--cleanup-tmp-dir" flag for `kubeadm reset`. It will cleanup the contents of `/etc/kubernetes/tmp`. The flag is off by default. ([#112172](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112172), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave))