- Reduced memory usage/allocations during wait for volume attachment. ([#126575](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126575), [@Lucaber](https://github.com/Lucaber)) [SIG Node and Storage]

- Fix unsafe JSON construction in a number of locations in the codebase ([#81158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81158), [@zouyee](https://github.com/zouyee))

- Creates an annotation `service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-eip-allocations` to assign AWS EIP to the newly created Network Load Balancer. Number of allocations and subnets must match. ([#69263](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69263), [@brooksgarrett](https://github.com/brooksgarrett))

* Don't recreate lb cloud resources on kcm restart ([#29082](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29082), [@bprashanth](https://github.com/bprashanth))
* List all nodes and occupy cidr map before starting allocations ([#29062](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29062), [@bprashanth](https://github.com/bprashanth))

   * bits.
   *
   * @param h hash code
   */
  static int rehash(int h) {
    // Spread bits to regularize both segment and index locations,
    // using variant of single-word Wang/Jenkins hash.
    // TODO(kevinb): use Hashing/move this to Hashing?
    h += (h << 15) ^ 0xffffcd7d;
    h ^= h >>> 10;
    h += h << 3;
    h ^= h >>> 6;

- Introduced a breaking change to the `resource.k8s.io` API in its `AllocationResult` struct. This change allows a kubelet plugin for the `DynamicResourceAllocation` feature to service allocations from multiple resource driver controllers. ([#116332](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116332), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska))

- Kubeadm: avoid panicing if the user has malformed the kubeconfig in the cluster-info config map to not include a valid current context. Include proper validation at the appropriate locations and throw errors instead. ([#134715](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134715), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

### Serverside Apply - Beta 2

- Fixed bug in `TopologyManager` for ensuring aligned allocations on machines with more than 2 NUMA nodes ([#108052](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108052), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska))

    * and cloud_cidr_allocator. (ALPHA FEATURE)
    * Note: for this change, the other allocators still exist and are the default.
    * It supports two modes:
        * CIDR range allocations done within the cluster that are then propagated out to the cloud provider.
        * Cloud provider managed IPAM that is then reflected into the cluster.