- The kubelet, when using `--cloud-provider=external` can use the `--node-ip` flag with one of the unspecified addresses 0.0.0.0 or ::, to create the Node with the IP of the default gateway of the corresponding IP family and then delegating the responsibility to the external cloud provider. This solves the bootstrap problems of out of tree cloud providers that are...

* Expose Metrics Server metrics via /metric endpoint. ([#57456](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57456), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))

* Updated priority of mirror pod according to PriorityClassName. ([#58485](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58485), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))

     * SmbFile objects are equal when they reference the same SMB
     * resource. More specifically, two <code>SmbFile</code> objects are
     * equals if their server IP addresses are equal and the canonicalized
     * representation of their URLs, minus authentication parameters, are
     * case insensitively and lexographically equal.
     * <br>

- Fixed the bug that a `ServiceIPStaticSubrange` enabled cluster assigns duplicate IP addresses when the dynamic block is exhausted. ([#109928](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109928), [@tksm](https://github.com/tksm))

- Fixed a bug where 64-bit IPv6 `ServiceCIDRs` allocated addresses outside the subnet range. ([#134193](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134193), [@hoskeri](https://github.com/hoskeri))
- Fixed a bug where Job status updates fail after resuming a Job that was previously started and suspended.

* VSAN support for VSphere Volume Plugin ([#29172](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29172), [@abrarshivani](https://github.com/abrarshivani))
* Addresses vSphere Volume Attach limits ([#29881](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/29881), [@dagnello](https://github.com/dagnello))

* The apiserver now uses addresses reported by the kubelet in the Node object's status for apiserver->kubelet communications, rather than the name of the Node object. The address type used defaults to `InternalIP`, `ExternalIP`, and `LegacyHostIP` address types, in that order. ([...

      Request(
        server
          .url("/")
          .newBuilder()
          .host("android.com")
          .build(),
      )
    executeSynchronously(request).assertFailure("$dns returned no addresses for android.com")
    dns.assertRequests("android.com")
  }

  /** We had a bug where failed HTTP/2 calls could break the entire connection.  */
  @Flaky
  @Test

- Fixed an EndpointSlice Controller hashing bug that could cause EndpointSlices to incorrectly handle Pods with duplicate IP addresses. For example this could happen when a new Pod reused an IP that was also assigned to a Pod in a completed state. ([#115907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115907), [@qinqon](https://github.com/qinqon)) [SIG Apps and Network]