- GCE Internal LoadBalancer sync loop will now release the ILB IP address upon sync failure. An error in ILB forwarding rule creation will no longer leak IP addresses. ([#97740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97740), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Network]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

			if len(qs.XferStats) > 0 {
				tots := qs.XferStats[Total]
				currTransferRate.Value = tots.Curr
				avgTransferRate.Value = tots.Avg
				maxTransferRate.Value = tots.Peak
			}
			ml = []MetricV2{
				activeWorkersCount,
				avgActiveWorkersCount,
				maxActiveWorkersCount,
				currInQueueCount,
				currInQueueBytes,
				avgQueueCount,
				avgQueueBytes,

* Fix resync goroutine leak in ListAndWatch ([#35672](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35672), [@tatsuhiro-t](https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t))

* Version-guard Kubectl client Guestbook application test against deployments ([#24478](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24478), [@ihmccreery](https://github.com/ihmccreery))
* Fix goroutine leak in ssh-tunnel healthcheck. ([#24487](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24487), [@cjcullen](https://github.com/cjcullen))

* kube-apiserver: Fixed a regression accepting patch requests > 1MB ([#84963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84963), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* kube-apiserver: fixed a bug that could cause a goroutine leak if the apiserver encountered an encoding error serving a watch to a websocket watcher ([#84693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84693), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))

* kube-apiserver: Fixed a regression accepting patch requests > 1MB ([#84963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84963), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* kube-apiserver: fixed a bug that could cause a goroutine leak if the apiserver encountered an encoding error serving a watch to a websocket watcher ([#84693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84693), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))

- Fixed a bug where startupProbe stopped working after a container's first restart ([#101093](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101093), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]
- Fixed port-forward memory leak for long-running and heavily used connections. ([#99839](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99839), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]

- Fix memory leak in the job controller related to JobTrackingWithFinalizers ([#111723](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111723), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps]

* - Disable thin_ls due to excessive iops ([#43113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43113), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
    * - Ignore .mount cgroups, fixing dissappearing stats
    * - Fix wc goroutine leak
    * - Update aws-sdk-go dependency to 1.6.10

- Fixed a bug where startupProbe stopped working after a container's first restart ([#101093](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101093), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]
- Fixed port-forward memory leak for long-running and heavily used connections. ([#99839](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99839), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]