- Reduced time taken to sync proxy rules on Windows kube-proxy with kernelspace mode ([#110702](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110702), [@daschott](https://github.com/daschott)) [SIG Network and Windows]

* Ensure the backend pools are set correctly for Azure SLB with multiple backend pools (e.g. outbound rules) ([#76691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76691), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Fix bug in CRD Validation Rules (beta) and ValidatingAdmissionPolicy (alpha) where all admission requests could result in `internal error: runtime error: index out of range [3] with length 3 evaluating rule: <rule name>` under certain circumstances. ([#114861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114861), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery,...

  /*
   * This matches the same characters as linear-white-space from RFC 822, but we make no effort to
   * enforce any particular rules with regards to line folding as stated in the class docs.
   */
  private static final CharMatcher LINEAR_WHITE_SPACE = CharMatcher.anyOf(" \t\r\n");

  // TODO(gak): make these public?

	}

	oneWeekAgo := time.Now().Add(-7 * 24 * time.Hour)

	lifecycleBytes := []byte(`
<LifecycleConfiguration>
	<Rule>
		<Status>Enabled</Status>
		<Expiration>
			<Days>1</Days>
		</Expiration>
	</Rule>
</LifecycleConfiguration>
`)

	lifecycleConfig, err := lifecycle.ParseLifecycleConfig(bytes.NewReader(lifecycleBytes))
	if err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err)

- Reorganized iptables rules to reduce rules in `KUBE-SERVICES` and `KUBE-NODEPORTS`. ([#96959](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96959), [@tssurya](https://github.com/tssurya))

	if isMinioMetaBucketName(bucket) {
		return true
	}
	if len(bucket) < 3 || len(bucket) > 63 {
		return false
	}

	// Split on dot and check each piece conforms to rules.
	allNumbers := true
	pieces := strings.Split(bucket, dnsDelimiter)
	for _, piece := range pieces {
		if len(piece) == 0 || piece[0] == '-' ||
			piece[len(piece)-1] == '-' {

- The kube-proxy `sync_proxy_rules_iptables_total` metric has now reverted back
  to its pre-1.27 behavior of tracking the total number of iptables rules that
  kube-proxy is responsible for, rather than only counting the number of rules
  that it re-synced on the last sync. The new `sync_proxy_rules_iptables_last`

// Load the library specified by library_filename and register the ops and
// kernels present in that library.
//
// Pass "library_filename" to a platform-specific mechanism for dynamically
// loading a library. The rules for determining the exact location of the
// library are platform-specific and are not documented here.
//
// On success, place OK in status and return the newly created library handle.

* Change GCP ILB firewall names to contain the "k8s-fw-" prefix like the rest of the firewall rules. This is needed for consistency and also for other components to identify the firewall rule as k8s/service-controller managed. ([#84622](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84622), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj))