- Made `apiextensions-apiserver` binary linking static (also affects the deb and rpm packages). ([#114226](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114226), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

will use the local kube-apiserver endpoint for the kubelet when creating a cluster with `kubeadm init` or when joining control plane nodes with `kubeadm join`. Enabling the feature gate also affects the `kubeadm init phase kubeconfig kubelet` phase, where the flag `--control-plane-endpoint` no longer affects the generated kubeconfig `Server` field, but the flag `--apiserver-advertise-address` can now be used for the same purpose. ([#129956](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129956), ...

* Deployments and DaemonSets rollouts are considered complete when all of the desired replicas are updated and available. This change affects `kubectl rollout status` and Deployment condition. ([#44672](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44672), [@kargakis](https://github.com/kargakis))

* Code generated for CRDs now passes `go vet`. ([#62412](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62412), [@bhcleek](https://github.com/bhcleek))
* "beginPort+offset" format support for port range which affects kube-proxy only ([#58731](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58731), [@yue9944882](https://github.com/yue9944882))

- The etcd and KMS plugin health checks are not exposed in the new `livez` and `readyz` endpoints. This will be fixed in 1.16.1.
- Systems running `iptables` 1.8.0 or newer should start it in legacy mode. Please note that this affects all versions of Kubernetes and not only v1.16.0. For more detailed information about the issue and how to apply a workaround, please refer to the official documentation

- a new `EndpointSliceProxying` feature gate has been added to control the use of EndpointSlices in kube-proxy. The EndpointSlice feature gate that used to control this behavior no longer affects kube-proxy. This feature has been disabled by default. ([#86137](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86137), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott)) 

#### kubeadm:

#### Auth

- The Rancher credential provider has now been removed. This only affects you if you are using the downstream Rancher distro. ([#77099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77099), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))


#### AWS

  * Note that because any taints you might have created with Kubernetes 1.5 can only affect the scheduling of new pods (the `NoExecute` taint effect is introduced in 1.6), neither the master upgrade nor your running `kubectl taint` to re-create the taints will affect pods that are already running.

**Affected Versions**:
  - kubelet >= v1.8.0

**Fixed Versions**:
  - kubelet v1.28.4
  - kubelet v1.27.8
  - kubelet v1.26.11
  - kubelet v1.25.16

- Fixed bug where providing a FieldPath to a CRD Validation Rule would erroneously affect the reported field path of other unrelated CRD Validation Rules on the same schema. ([#123475](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123475), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski))