- Fixed a memory leak in the Kubernetes API server that occurs during APIService processing. ([#117258](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117258), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Changelog since v1.13.7

### Other notable changes

* Fix possible fd leak and closing of dirs in doSafeMakeDir  ([#79534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79534), [@odinuge](https://github.com/odinuge))

- Fixes a kubelet and kube-apiserver memory leak in default 1.29 configurations related to tracing. ([#126985](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126985), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]

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    * This was reported internally by [@rushilsrivastava](https://github.com/rushilsrivastava) as a memory leak when the server had unhandled exceptions that would produce internal server errors, the memory allocated before that point would not be released.

- Fix: the volume is not detached after the pod and PVC objects are deleted ([#117236](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117236), [@cvvz](https://github.com/cvvz)) [SIG Storage]
- Fixed a memory leak in the Kubernetes API server that occurs during APIService processing. ([#117310](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117310), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Fixes a kubelet and kube-apiserver memory leak in default 1.29 configurations related to tracing. ([#126983](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126983), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]