* Increase Azure default maximumLoadBalancerRuleCount to 250. ([#72621](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72621), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* Fixes bug in DaemonSetController causing it to stop processing some DaemonSets for 5 minutes after node removal. ([#76060](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76060), [@krzysztof-jastrzebski](https://github.com/krzysztof-jastrzebski))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126695](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126695), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

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* GCE: Internal load balancer IPs are now reserved during service sync to prevent losing the address to another service. ([#51055](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51055), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

* Services of type LoadBalancer (on GCE/GKE) that have static IP addresses will cause the Service Controller to panic and thereby causing the kube-controller-manager to crash loop.
([#48848](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/48848))

## **Deprecations**

### Cluster provisioning scripts

- Fixes creationTimestamp: null causing unnecessary writes to etcd ([#116865](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116865), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Fixes creationTimestamp: null causing unnecessary writes to etcd ([#116865](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116865), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

* Update Cluster Autoscaler to version 1.3.7. ([#74136](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74136), [@jkaniuk](https://github.com/jkaniuk))
* Fix watch to not send the same set of events multiple times causing watcher to go back in time ([#73845](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73845), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a scheduler preemption issue where the victim pod was not deleted due to incorrect status patching. This issue occurred when the preemptor and victim pods had different QoS classes in their status, causing the preemption to fail entirely. ([#126694](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126694), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei)) [SIG Scheduling]

## Changelog since v1.33.2

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fix a bug causing unexpected delay of creating pods for newly created jobs ([#132158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132158), [@linxiulei](https://github.com/linxiulei)) [SIG Apps and Testing]