- Kube-proxy doesn't set the sysctl `net.ipv4.conf.all.route_localnet=1` if no IPv4 loopback address is selected by the `nodePortAddresses` configuration parameter. ([#107684](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107684), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

- IPVS proxier now set net/ipv4/vs/conn_reuse_mode to 0 by default, which will highly improve IPVS proxier performance. ([#71114](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71114), [@Lion-Wei](https://github.com/Lion-Wei))

- PodLifecycleSleepAction is graduated to GA ([#128046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128046), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan)) [SIG Architecture, Node and Testing]
- Pods were allowed to use the `net.ipv4.tcp_rmem` and `net.ipv4.tcp_wmem` sysctl by default
  when the kernel version was 4.15 or higher. With the kernel 4.15 the sysctl became namespaced.

### OpenStack

* Fixed a bug in the OpenStack cloud provider where dual stack deployments (IPv4 and IPv6) did not work well when using kubenet as the network plugin. ([#59749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59749), [@zioproto](https://github.com/zioproto))

- Fix a bug that caused to panic the apiserver when trying to allocate a Service with a dynamic ClusterIP and it has been configured with Service CIDRs with a /28 mask for IPv4 and a /124 mask for IPv6 ([#115333](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115333), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Testing]

### **Network**

#### **IPv6**

*   [alpha] IPv6 support has been added. Notable IPv6 support details include:
    *   Support for IPv6-only Kubernetes cluster deployments. **<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Note:</span>** This feature does not provide dual-stack support.
    *   Support for IPv6 Kubernetes control and data planes.
    *   Support for Kubernetes IPv6 cluster deployments using kubeadm.

- Fixed the EndpointSliceController to correctly create endpoints for IPv6-only pods.
  
  Fixed the EndpointController to allow IPv6 headless services, if the IPv6DualStack
  feature gate is enabled, by specifying `ipFamily: IPv6` on the service. (This already

- Fixed a regression in kube-proxy where it might refuse to start if given
  single-stack IPv6 configuration options on a node that has both IPv4 and
  IPv6 IPs. ([#121008](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121008), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Network]

          sudo sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0
          sudo sysctl net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=0
          make test-pbac

      - name: Test Config File
        run: |
          sudo sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0
          sudo sysctl net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=0
          make test-configfile

      - name: Test Replication
        run: |
          sudo sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0

* You can now use `--ipvs-exclude-cidrs` to specify a list of CIDR's which the IPVS proxier should not touch when cleaning up IPVS rules. ([#62083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62083), [@rramkumar1](https://github.com/rramkumar1))