- Fixed a bug where the kube-proxy `EndpointSliceCache` memory experienced a leak. ([#128929](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128929), [@orange30](https://github.com/orange30))

- 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 ([#111722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111722), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG Apps]

- 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 a bug where the `scheduler_unschedulable_pods` metric could be artificially inflated (leak) when a pod fails `PreEnqueue` plugins after being previously marked unschedulable. ([#135981](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135981), [@vshkrabkov](https://github.com/vshkrabkov)) [SIG Scheduling]

* 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))

    * 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))

- 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]

- 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]