- Fix Windows kube-proxy to prevent intermittent deletion of ClusterIP load balancers in HNS when internalTrafficPolicy=Local, ensuring stable service connectivity. ([#134032](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134032), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network and Windows]

- EndpointSlice controllers are less likely to create duplicate EndpointSlices. ([#101763](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101763), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Apps and Network]

=== ":material-language-kotlin: Kotlin"
    ```kotlin
      private val client: OkHttpClient = OkHttpClient.Builder()
          .cache(Cache(

- It is now possible to use the service annotation `cloud.google.com/network-tier: Standard` to configure the Network Tier of the GCE Loadbalancer ([#88532](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88532), [@zioproto](https://github.com/zioproto)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Network and Testing]

libcurand-12-1
libcusolver-dev-12-1
libcusparse-dev-12-1
libcublas-12-1
libcublas-dev-12-1
libnccl-dev=2.18.3-1+cuda12.1
libnccl2=2.18.3-1+cuda12.1
# CuDNN: https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/sdk/cudnn-install/index.html#ubuntu-network-installation
libcudnn9-dev-cuda-12=9.8.0.87-1

libcurand-12-3
libcusolver-dev-12-3
libcusparse-dev-12-3
libcublas-12-3
libcublas-dev-12-3
libnccl-dev=2.19.3-1+cuda12.3
libnccl2=2.19.3-1+cuda12.3
# CuDNN: https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/sdk/cudnn-install/index.html#ubuntu-network-installation
libcudnn9-dev-cuda-12=9.1.1.17-1

 * Response caching avoids the network completely for repeat requests.

OkHttp perseveres when the network is troublesome: it will silently recover from common connection
problems. If your service has multiple IP addresses, OkHttp will attempt alternate addresses if the
first connect fails. This is necessary for IPv4+IPv6 and services hosted in redundant data

The API docs use **Swagger UI** and **ReDoc**, and each of those need some JavaScript and CSS files.

By default, those files are served from a <abbr title="Content Delivery Network: A service, normally composed of several servers, that provides static files, like JavaScript and CSS. It's commonly used to serve those files from the server closer to the client, improving performance.">CDN</abbr>.

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Updates konnectivity-network-proxy to v0.0.27. This includes a memory leak fix for the network proxy ([#107037](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107037), [@jdnurme](https://github.com/jdnurme)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth and Cloud Provider]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- sigs.k8s.io/apiserver-network-proxy/konnectivity-client: v0.0.25 → v0.0.27

libcurand-12-8
libcusolver-dev-12-8
libcusparse-dev-12-8
libcublas-12-8
libcublas-dev-12-8
libnccl-dev=2.25.1-1+cuda12.8
libnccl2=2.25.1-1+cuda12.8
# CuDNN: https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/sdk/cudnn-install/index.html#ubuntu-network-installation
libcudnn9-dev-cuda-12=9.8.0.87-1