* 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)

*   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

    - [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)

  - Do not use the `PersistentVolumeLabel` admission controller in the configuration files and scripts unless you are dependent on the in-tree GCE and AWS cloud providers.

      - [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)

on a number of [Container Storage Interface (CSI) features](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/178) this quarter in anticipation of moving support for CSI from beta to GA in the next Kubernetes release. This includes graduating the dependent “mount namespace propagation” feature to GA, moving the Kubelet plugin registration mechanism to beta, adding alpha support for a new CSI driver registry as well as for topology, and adding a number of alpha features to support the use of CSI for...

- 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]

## 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))