- Don't use a custom dialer for the kubelet if is not rotating certificates, so we can reuse TCP connections and have only one between the apiserver and the kubelet.

- Fixes a panic in the disruption budget controller for PDB objects with invalid selectors ([#98775](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98775), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG Apps]
- Fixes connection errors when using `--volume-host-cidr-denylist` or `--volume-host-allow-local-loopback` ([#98436](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98436), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Network and Storage]

- github.com/docker/docker: [v20.10.27+incompatible → v26.1.4+incompatible](https://github.com/docker/docker/compare/v20.10.27...v26.1.4)
- github.com/docker/go-connections: [v0.4.0 → v0.5.0](https://github.com/docker/go-connections/compare/v0.4.0...v0.5.0)
- github.com/exponent-io/jsonpath: [d6023ce → 1de76d7](https://github.com/exponent-io/jsonpath/compare/d6023ce...1de76d7)

* Add conntrack as a dependency of kubelet and kubeadm when building rpms and debs. Both require conntrack to handle cleanup of connections. ([#71540](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71540), [@mauilion](https://github.com/mauilion))
* UDP connections now support graceful termination in IPVS mode ([#71515](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71515), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

		Transport: globalRemoteTargetTransport,
		Timeout:   10 * time.Second,
	}

	resp, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	if err == nil {
		// Drain the connection.
		xhttp.DrainBody(resp.Body)
	}
	if resp != nil {
		amzid := resp.Header.Get(xhttp.AmzRequestHostID)
		if _, ok := globalNodeNamesHex[amzid]; ok {
			return BucketRemoteIdenticalToSource{

- Kube-proxy: fix a bug on UDP `NodePort` Services where stale connection tracking entries may blackhole the traffic directed to the `NodePort` ([#98305](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98305), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

- Fix: use force detach for azure disk ([#91948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/91948), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fixes a problem with 63-second or 1-second connection delays with some VXLAN-based
  network plugins which was first widely noticed in 1.16 (though some users saw it
  earlier than that, possibly only with specific network plugins). If you were previously

	expectedMap.Set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "http://foobar.com")
	expectedMap["Access-Control-Expose-Headers"] = []string{
		"Date",
		"Etag",
		"Server",
		"Connection",
		"Accept-Ranges",
		"Content-Range",
		"Content-Encoding",
		"Content-Length",
		"Content-Type",
		"Content-Disposition",
		"Last-Modified",
		"Content-Language",
		"Cache-Control",

by default). An API server fronted by an L7 load balancer that already mitigates these http/2 attacks may choose not to enable the kube-apiserver mitigation to avoid disrupting load balancer → kube-apiserver connections if http/2 requests from multiple clients share the same backend connection. An API server on a private network may choose not to enable the kube-apiserver mitigation to prevent performance regressions for unauthenticated clients. Authenticated requests rely on the fix in golang.org/x/net...

- Fixes a 1.30+ regression in connection stability for exec / attach / portforward requests initiated using a websocket client ([#130251](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130251), [@fuweid](https://github.com/fuweid)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI and Testing]