- Fixed panic when accessing CustomResources of a CRD with `x-kubernetes-int-or-string`. ([#83787](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83787), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))
* Fixes issue creating docker secrets with kubectl 1.9 for accessing docker private registries. ([#57463](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57463), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

## Changelog since v1.15.4

### Other notable changes

* Fixes kube-proxy bug accessing self nodeip:port on windows ([#83027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83027), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* Fixed panic when accessing CustomResources of a CRD with x-kubernetes-int-or-string. ([#83790](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83790), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

## Changelog since v1.16.1

### Other notable changes

* Fixed panic when accessing CustomResources of a CRD with x-kubernetes-int-or-string. ([#83789](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83789), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

* Cluster Autoscaler 1.0.1 ([#54298](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54298), [@mwielgus](https://github.com/mwielgus))
* Resolves forbidden error when accessing replicasets and daemonsets via the apps API group ([#54309](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54309), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fix counting error in service/nodeport/loadbalancer quota check ([#97451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97451), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG API Machinery, Network and Testing]
- Fix errors when accessing Windows container stats for Dockershim ([#98510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98510), [@jsturtevant](https://github.com/jsturtevant)) [SIG Node and Windows]

- Changed Linux swap handling to restrict access to swap for containers in high priority Pods.
  New Pods that have a node- or cluster-critical priority are prohibited from accessing swap on Linux,
  even if your cluster and node configuration could otherwise allow this. ([#125277](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125277), [@iholder101](https://github.com/iholder101)) [SIG Node and Testing]

* Fixed issue creating docker secrets with kubectl 1.9 for accessing docker private registries. ([#57463](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57463), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

* Check if container memory stats are available before accessing it ([#77656](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77656), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))

* Check if container memory stats are available before accessing it ([#77656](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77656), [@yastij](https://github.com/yastij))