- Windows Kubeproxy will use the update load balancer API for load balancer updates, instead of the previous delete and create APIs.

- Fix the bug PIP's DNS is deleted if no DNS label service annotation isn't set. ([#87311](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87311), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: set nil cache entry based on old cache ([#87592](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87592), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### Bug or Regression

- Ensure daemonset controller to count old unhealthy pods towards max unavailable budget ([#127774](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127774), [@ncdc](https://github.com/ncdc)) [SIG Apps]

- The `PreferSameZone` and `PreferSameNode` values for Service's
  `trafficDistribution` field are now GA. The old value `PreferClose` is now

            async with nested_context(app) as maybe_nested_state:
                if maybe_nested_state is None and maybe_original_state is None:
                    yield None  # old ASGI compatibility
                else:
                    yield {**(maybe_nested_state or {}), **(maybe_original_state or {})}

    return merged_lifespan  # type: ignore[return-value]

For stable features, the `kubectl` tool follows the Kubernetes [version skew policy](https://kubernetes.io/releases/version-skew-policy/);
however, kubectl v1.21 and older do not support the new API for ephemeral containers.

## Changelog since v1.12.4

### Other notable changes

* kubectl: fixed an issue with "too old resource version" errors continuously appearing when calling `kubectl delete` ([#72825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72825), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

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