- Fixes a kubelet and kube-apiserver memory leak in default 1.29 configurations related to tracing. ([#126984](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126984), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]

## Changelog since v1.22.12

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fix memory leak on kube-scheduler preemption ([#111805](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111805), [@amewayne](https://github.com/amewayne)) [SIG Scheduling]

- Fixes an issue in winkernel proxier that causes proxy rules to leak anytime service backends are modified. ([#112840](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112840), [@daschott](https://github.com/daschott)) [SIG Network and Windows]

- fixes an out of range panic in the NoExecuteTaintManager controller when running a non-64-bit build ([#65596](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65596), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
- Fix kubelet to not leak goroutines/intofiy watchers on an inactive connection if it's closed ([#67285](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67285), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

* Fixed CSI gRPC connection leak during volume operations. ([#64519](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64519), [@vladimirvivien](https://github.com/vladimirvivien))

- Fixed e2e test "[Driver: csi-hostpath] [Testpattern: Dynamic PV (filesystem volmode)] volumeLimits should support volume limits" not to leak Pods and namespaces. ([#132674](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132674), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Storage and Testing]

* Bump version of prometheus-to-sd to 0.2.6 to decrease log noise and include latest security patches. ([#64964](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64964), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))
* fixes a memory leak in the kube-controller-manager observed when large numbers of pods with tolerations are created/deleted ([#65339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65339), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* kube-proxy handling of services with no endpoints now applies to both INPUT and OUTPUT chains, preventing socket leak. ([#43972](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43972), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

- Fix: the volume is not detached after the pod and PVC objects are deleted ([#117340](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117340), [@cvvz](https://github.com/cvvz)) [SIG Storage]
- Fixed a memory leak in the Kubernetes API server that occurs during APIService processing. ([#117311](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117311), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery]

    * Fix brtfs disk metrics when using a subdirectory of a subvolume
* Pass cluster_location argument to Heapster ([#65176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65176), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))
* fixes a memory leak in the kube-controller-manager observed when large numbers of pods with tolerations are created/deleted ([#65339](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65339), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))