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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)

    - [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...

- For statically provisioned PVs, if its volume source is CSI type or it has migrated annotation, when it's deleted, the PersisentVolume controller won't changes its phase to the Failed state. 
  

exchange

// expert : Binky Moon, LLC
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/expert.html
expert

// exposed : Binky Moon, LLC
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/exposed.html
exposed

// express : Binky Moon, LLC
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/express.html
express

// extraspace : Extra Space Storage LLC

- 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))

  Two annotations have been promoted to API fields:

  * Service.Spec.ExternalTrafficPolicy was 'service.beta.kubernetes.io/external-traffic' annotation.

- 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]

### 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