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    - [Cluster Load Balancing](#cluster-load-balancing)
    - [etcd Empty Dir Cleanup](#etcd-empty-dir-cleanup)
    - [Fluentd](#fluentd)
    - [Heapster](#heapster)
    - [Registry](#registry)
  - [External Dependency Version Information](#external-dependency-version-information)
  - [Changelog since v1.6.0-rc.1](#changelog-since-v160-rc1)
    - [Previous Releases Included in v1.6.0](#previous-releases-included-in-v160)
- [v1.6.0-rc.1](#v160-rc1)

* Fix setup of configmap/secret/projected/downwardapi volumes ([#64855](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64855), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
* Added default ClusterRoles for external CSI components csi-external-provisioner and csi-external-attacher ([#65073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65073), [@davidz627](https://github.com/davidz627))

    - [Removal of several beta Kubernetes APIs](#removal-of-several-beta-kubernetes-apis)
    - [Kubernetes release cadence change](#kubernetes-release-cadence-change)
    - [External credential providers](#external-credential-providers)
    - [Server-side Apply graduates to GA](#server-side-apply-graduates-to-ga)
    - [Container Storage Interface graduations](#container-storage-interface-graduations)

- Kubeadm: during execution of the "check expiration" command, treat the etcd CA as external if there is a missing etcd CA key file (etcd/ca.key) and perform the proper validation on certificates signed by the etcd CA. Additionally, make sure that the CA for all entries in the output table is included - for both certificates on disk and...

- The built-in system:csi-external-provisioner and system:csi-external-attacher cluster roles are removed as of 1.17 release ([#84282](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84282), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))

### Feature

- AWS cloudprovider will ignore provisioning load balancers if the annotation service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-type is external or nlb-ip ([#97973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97973), [@kishorj](https://github.com/kishorj)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

### Bug or Regression

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- Extend kube-apiserver /readyz with new "informer-sync" check ensuring that internal informers are synced. ([#92644](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92644), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

    - [SIG Scheduling](#sig-scheduling-1)
    - [SIG Storage](#sig-storage-1)
    - [SIG vSphere](#sig-vsphere)
    - [SIG Windows](#sig-windows-1)
    - [Additional changes](#additional-changes)
  - [External Dependencies](#external-dependencies)
  - [Bug Fixes](#bug-fixes)
      - [General Fixes and Reliability](#general-fixes-and-reliability)
  - [Non-user-facing changes](#non-user-facing-changes)
- [v1.11.0-rc.3](#v1110-rc3)