* genericapiserver: more dependency cutoffs ([#40216](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40216), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* genericapiserver: cut off kube pkg/version dependency ([#39943](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39943), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

      - [Windows](#windows)
    - [Dependencies](#dependencies-7)
      - [Changed](#changed-7)
      - [Unchanged](#unchanged)
      - [Removed](#removed-7)
      - [Detailed go Dependency Changes](#detailed-go-dependency-changes)
        - [Added](#added-7)
        - [Changed](#changed-8)
        - [Removed](#removed-8)
- [v1.16.0-rc.2](#v1160-rc2)
  - [Downloads for v1.16.0-rc.2](#downloads-for-v1160-rc2)

    - [Node](#node)
    - [Release](#release)
    - [Scheduling](#scheduling-1)
    - [Storage](#storage-1)
    - [Windows](#windows-1)
    - [Dependencies](#dependencies-13)
    - [Detailed go Dependency Changes](#detailed-go-dependency-changes)
      - [Added](#added-13)
      - [Changed](#changed-13)
      - [Removed](#removed-13)
- [v1.17.0-rc.2](#v1170-rc2)
  - [Downloads for v1.17.0-rc.2](#downloads-for-v1170-rc2)

      - [Node Components](#node-components-1)
      - [Scheduling](#scheduling-2)
      - [Security](#security-1)
      - [Scalability](#scalability)
  - [**External Dependency Version Information**](#external-dependency-version-information)
    - [Previous Releases Included in v1.7.0](#previous-releases-included-in-v170)
- [v1.7.0-rc.1](#v170-rc1)
  - [Downloads for v1.7.0-rc.1](#downloads-for-v170-rc1)

- Dropped archived dependency: Removed the deprecated and archived dependency: github.com/pkg/errors in favor of standard Go error handling.

- Track Job completion through status and Pod finalizers, removing dependency on Pod tombstones. ([#98238](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98238), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Auth and Testing]

- Fix invalid VMSS updates due to incorrect cache ([#89002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89002), [@ArchangelSDY](https://github.com/ArchangelSDY)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix isCurrentInstance for Windows by removing the dependency of hostname. ([#89138](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89138), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

*   If a namespaced resource is owned by a cluster scoped resource, and the namespaced dependent is processed before the cluster scoped owner has ever been observed by the garbage collector, the dependent will be erroneously deleted.

  For more information, see [#54940](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/54940)

## Deprecations

## Changelog since v1.15.2

### Other notable changes

* Update golang/x/net dependency to bring in fixes for CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9514 ([#81522](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81522), [@cblecker](https://github.com/cblecker))

* Update to use go 1.12.9 ([#81489](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81489), [@BenTheElder](https://github.com/BenTheElder))
* Update golang/x/net dependency to bring in fixes for CVE-2019-9512, CVE-2019-9514 ([#81525](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81525), [@cblecker](https://github.com/cblecker))