- The pod phase lifecycle guarantees that terminal Pods, those whose states are Unready or Succeeded, can not regress and will have all container stopped. Hence, terminal Pods will never be reachable and should not publish their IP addresses on the Endpoints or EndpointSlices, independently of the Service TolerateUnready option. ([#110258](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110258), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) [SIG Apps, Network, Node and Testing]

   * Iterables#filter(Iterable, Class)} for related functionality.)
   *
   * <p><b>Java 8+ users:</b> many use cases for this method are better addressed by {@link
   * java.util.stream.Stream#filter}. This method is not being deprecated, but we gently encourage
   * you to migrate to streams.
   */

* Only use the first IP address got from instance metadata. This is because Azure CNI would set up a list of IP addresses in instance metadata, while only the first one is the Node's IP. ([#71736](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71736), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Update Azure load balancer to prevent orphaned public IP addresses ([#82890](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82890), [@chewong](https://github.com/chewong))

* iscsi storage plugin: Fix dangling session when using multiple target portal addresses. ([#46239](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46239), [@mtanino](https://github.com/mtanino))

* [metrics-server addon] Restore connecting to nodes via IP addresses ([#76819](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76819), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

- Added warnings to the Services API. Kubernetes now warns for Services in the case of:
  - IPv4 addresses with leading zeros
  - IPv6 address in non-canonical format (RFC 5952) ([#114505](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114505), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

- The kubelet, when using `--cloud-provider=external` can use the `--node-ip` flag with one of the unspecified addresses 0.0.0.0 or ::, to create the Node with the IP of the default gateway of the corresponding IP family and then delegating the responsibility to the external cloud provider. This solves the bootstrap problems of out of tree cloud providers that are...

- Fixed a bug where 64-bit IPv6 `ServiceCIDRs` allocated addresses outside the subnet range. ([#134193](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134193), [@hoskeri](https://github.com/hoskeri))
- Fixed a bug where Job status updates fail after resuming a Job that was previously started and suspended.

     * SmbFile objects are equal when they reference the same SMB
     * resource. More specifically, two <code>SmbFile</code> objects are
     * equals if their server IP addresses are equal and the canonicalized
     * representation of their URLs, minus authentication parameters, are
     * case insensitively and lexographically equal.
     * <br>