* setting `KUBE_PROXY_DAEMONSET=true` in kube-up will now set a `node.kubernetes.io/kube-proxy-ds-ready=true` label on new nodes. In v1.16, the kube-proxy daemonset add-on will switch to using that label as a node selector.

  For metrics `etcd_request_duration_seconds`, `etcd_requests_total` and `etcd_request_errors_total` replace `type` label with API `resource` and `group` label.
  For metric `apiserver_selfrequest_total` add a API `group` label.
  For metrics `apiserver_watch_events_sizes` and `apiserver_watch_events_total` replace API `kind` label with `resource` label.

 - Newly provisioned PVs by gce-pd will no longer have the beta FailureDomain label. gce-pd volume plugin will start to have GA topology label instead. ([#98700](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98700),...

        * kube-proxy addon starts to use the label `node.kubernetes.io/kube-proxy-ds-ready` instead of `beta.kubernetes.io/kube-proxy-ds-ready` as its node selector.
        * metadata-proxy addon starts to use the label `cloud.google.com/metadata-proxy-ready` instead of `beta.kubernetes.io/metadata-proxy-ready` as its node selector.

  - Make "kubeadm upgrade apply" add the "node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane" label on existing nodes that only have the "node-role.kubernetes.io/master" label during upgrade.
  - Please adapt your tooling built on top of kubeadm to use the "node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane" label.

- e2e framework: `framework.WithFeatureGate` `[Alpha]`, `[Beta]` and `[Feature:OffByDefault]` tags are now set 1:1 with `Alpha`,  `Beta`, `Feature:OffByDefault` Ginkgo labels, replacing`Feature:Alpha` and `Feature:Beta` labels. `BetaOffByDefault` is also added as a Ginkgo label only for off-by-default beta features ([#130908](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130908), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder)) [SIG Testing]

*   StatefulSet controller now creates a label for each Pod in a StatefulSet. The label is `statefulset.kubernetes.io/pod-name`, where `pod-name` = the name of the Pod. This allows users to create a Service per Pod to expose a connection to individual Pods. ([#55329](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55329),[...

* The ScaleIO volume plugin can now read the SDC GUID value as node label scaleio.sdcGuid; if binary drv_cfg is not installed, the plugin will still work properly; if node label not found, it defaults to drv_cfg if installed. ([#50780](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50780), [@vladimirvivien](https://github.com/vladimirvivien))

- When specifying an invalid value for a label, it was not always clear which label the value was specified for. Starting with this release, the label's key is included in such error messages, which makes debugging easier. ([#77144](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77144), [@kenegozi](https://github.com/kenegozi))...

  - Use of the `--node-labels` flag to set labels under the `kubernetes.io/` and `k8s.io/` prefix will be subject to restriction by the `NodeRestriction` admission plugin in future releases. [See admission plugin documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/admission-controllers/#noderestriction) for allowed labels. ([#68267](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68267), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))...