- Reduced time taken to sync proxy rules on Windows kube-proxy with kernelspace mode ([#110702](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110702), [@daschott](https://github.com/daschott)) [SIG Network and Windows]

* Ensure the backend pools are set correctly for Azure SLB with multiple backend pools (e.g. outbound rules) ([#76691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/76691), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Reorganized iptables rules to reduce rules in `KUBE-SERVICES` and `KUBE-NODEPORTS`. ([#96959](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96959), [@tssurya](https://github.com/tssurya))

  /*
   * This matches the same characters as linear-white-space from RFC 822, but we make no effort to
   * enforce any particular rules with regards to line folding as stated in the class docs.
   */
  private static final CharMatcher LINEAR_WHITE_SPACE = CharMatcher.anyOf(" \t\r\n");

  // TODO(gak): make these public?

* Change GCP ILB firewall names to contain the "k8s-fw-" prefix like the rest of the firewall rules. This is needed for consistency and also for other components to identify the firewall rule as k8s/service-controller managed. ([#84622](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84622), [@prameshj](https://github.com/prameshj))

	if isMinioMetaBucketName(bucket) {
		return true
	}
	if len(bucket) < 3 || len(bucket) > 63 {
		return false
	}

	// Split on dot and check each piece conforms to rules.
	allNumbers := true
	pieces := strings.Split(bucket, dnsDelimiter)
	for _, piece := range pieces {
		if len(piece) == 0 || piece[0] == '-' ||
			piece[len(piece)-1] == '-' {

- The kube-proxy `sync_proxy_rules_iptables_total` metric has now reverted back
  to its pre-1.27 behavior of tracking the total number of iptables rules that
  kube-proxy is responsible for, rather than only counting the number of rules
  that it re-synced on the last sync. The new `sync_proxy_rules_iptables_last`

// Load the library specified by library_filename and register the ops and
// kernels present in that library.
//
// Pass "library_filename" to a platform-specific mechanism for dynamically
// loading a library. The rules for determining the exact location of the
// library are platform-specific and are not documented here.
//
// On success, place OK in status and return the newly created library handle.

// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

// This input was created by taking the instruction productions in
// the old assembler's (5a's) grammar and hand-writing complete
// instructions for each rule, to guarantee we cover the same space.

#include "../../../../../runtime/textflag.h"

TEXT	foo(SB), DUPOK|NOSPLIT, $0

// ADD
//
//	LTYPE1 cond imsr ',' spreg ',' reg
//	{
//		outcode($1, $2, &$3, $5, &$7);

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