### Service
* The 'endpoints.beta.kubernetes.io/hostnames-map' annotation is no longer supported.  Users can use the 'Endpoints.subsets[].addresses[].hostname' field instead. ([#39284](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39284), [@bowei](https://github.com/bowei))

### StatefulSet

- AWS cloud provider supports auto-discovering subnets without any `kubernetes.io/cluster/<clusterName>` tags. It also supports additional service annotation `service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-subnets` to manually configure the subnets. ([#97431](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97431), [@kishorj](https://github.com/kishorj))

* Protobuf serialization does not distinguish between `[]` and `null`.
API fields previously capable of storing and returning either `[]` and `null` via JSON API requests (for example, the Endpoints `subsets` field)
can now store only `null` when created using the protobuf content-type or stored in etcd using protobuf serialization (the default in 1.6).

    * API fields previously capable of storing and returning either `[]` and `null` via JSON API requests (for example, the Endpoints `subsets` field) can now store only `null` when created using the protobuf content-type or stored in etcd using protobuf serialization (the default in 1.6+). JSON API clients should tolerate `null` values for such fields, and treat `null` and `[]` as equivalent...

    * API fields previously capable of storing and returning either `[]` and `null` via JSON API requests (for example, the Endpoints `subsets` field) can now store only `null` when created using the protobuf content-type or stored in etcd using protobuf serialization (the default in 1.6+). JSON API clients should tolerate `null` values for such fields, and treat `null` and `[]` as equivalent...

	corresponding method types unify exactly,
	and the method set of one of the interfaces is a subset of
	the method set of the other interface.
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	Only one type is an interface (but not a type parameter),
	corresponding methods of the two types unify per the element matching mode,
	and the method set of the interface is a subset of
	the method set of the other type.
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### Feature

- AWS cloudprovider supports auto-discovering subnets without any kubernetes.io/cluster/<clusterName> tags. It also supports additional service annotation service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-subnets to manually configure the subnets. ([#97431](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97431), [@kishorj](https://github.com/kishorj)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

## Major Themes

### Node

- Creates an annotation `service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-eip-allocations` to assign AWS EIP to the newly created Network Load Balancer. Number of allocations and subnets must match. ([#69263](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69263), [@brooksgarrett](https://github.com/brooksgarrett))

    * This helps to more easily solve use cases like:
        * Reading a body before and/or after a request (equivalent to a middleware).
        * Run middleware-like code only for a subset of *path operations*.
        * Process a request before passing it to a *path operation function*. E.g. decompressing, deserializing, etc.