### Other (Cleanup or Flake)
 - base-images: Use debian-base:v2.1.0 (includes CVE fixes)
  - base-images: Use debian-iptables:v12.1.0 (includes CVE fixes) ([#90863](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90863), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle and Release]

## Dependencies

- Topology Aware Hints now ignores unready endpoints when assigning hints. ([#106510](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106510), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))
- Topology Hints now excludes control plane notes from capacity calculations. ([#104744](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104744), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))

- Kubeadm: Added missing cluster-info context validation to prevent panics when the user has a malformed kubeconfig in the cluster-info ConfigMap that excludes a valid current context. ([#134715](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134715), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

* Add a new feature gate for enabling an alpha annotation which, if present, excludes the annotated node from being added to a service load balancers. ([#54644](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54644), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

* Add a new feature gate for enabling an alpha annotation which, if present, excludes the annotated node from being added to a service load balancers. ([#54644](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54644), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

  - the node label `alpha.service-controller.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer` which excludes a node from cloud load balancers (using Service Type=LoadBalancer) is deprecated in favor of `node.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer`. Support for `alpha.service-controller.kubernetes.io/exclude-balancer` will be removed in v1.18.

- Features:

- Messages of `DisruptionTarget` condition now excludes preemptor pod metadata ([#114914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114914), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))

type Writer interface {
	Write(p []byte) (n int, err error)
	Close() error
}

// ReadWriter's methods are Read, Write, and Close.
type ReadWriter interface {
	Reader  // includes methods of Reader in ReadWriter's method set
	Writer  // includes methods of Writer in ReadWriter's method set
}
</pre>

<p>
When embedding interfaces, methods with the
<a href="#Uniqueness_of_identifiers">same</a> names must

  - The calculations for Pod topology spread skew now excludes nodes that
  don't match the node affinity/selector. This may lead to unschedulable pods if you previously had pods
  matching the spreading selector on those excluded nodes (not matching the node affinity/selector),

* Kubeadm now includes CoreDNS version 1.6.5 ([#85109](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85109), [@rajansandeep](https://github.com/rajansandeep))
    *  - `kubernetes` plugin adds metrics to measure kubernetes control plane latency.
    *  -  the `health` plugin now includes the `lameduck` option by default, which waits for a duration before shutting down.