* [stackdriver addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes. ([#75362](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75362), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.1 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump event-exporter to v0.2.4 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.

* [stackdriver addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes. ([#75362](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75362), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.1 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump event-exporter to v0.2.4 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.

- Fixes a 1.34+ regression in ipvs and winkernel kube-proxy backends; these are now reverted back to their
  pre-1.34 behavior of regularly rechecking all of their rules even when no

- Parsing of cpuset information now properly detects more invalid input such as `1--3` or `10-6`. ([#100565](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100565), [@lack](https://github.com/lack))

- The job controller back-off logic is now decoupled from workqueue. In case of parallelism > 1, if there are multiple new failures in a reconciliation cycle, all the failures are taken into account to compute the back-off. Previously, the back-off kicked in for all types of failures; with this change, only pod failures are taken into account. If the back-off limits exceeds, the job is marked as failed immediately; before this change, the...

- When the go-client reflector relists, the ResourceVersion list option is set to the reflector's latest synced resource version to ensure the reflector does not "go back in time" and reprocess events older than it has already processed. If the server responds with an HTTP 410 (Gone) status code response, the relist falls back to using `resourceVersion=""`. ([#83520](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83520), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

* [stackdriver addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes. ([#75362](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75362), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to v0.5.1 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump event-exporter to v0.2.4 to pick up security fixes.
    * [fluentd-gcp addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to v0.5.0 to pick up security fixes.

## WARNING: etcd backup strongly recommended

Before updating to 1.6, you are strongly recommended to back up your etcd data.
Please consult the installation procedure you are using (kargo, kops, kube-up,
kube-aws, kubeadm etc) for specific advice.

1.6 encourages etcd3, and switching from etcd2 to etcd3 involves a full

- Updates `debian-iptables` to v1.6.7 to pick up CVE fixes. ([#104970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104970), [@PushkarJ](https://github.com/PushkarJ))
- Updates the following images to pick up CVE fixes:
  - `debian` to v1.9.0
  - `debian-iptables` to v1.6.6

* [fluentd-gcp-scaler addon] Bump fluentd-gcp-scaler to 0.4 to pick up security fixes. ([#67691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67691), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))
    * [prometheus-to-sd addon] Bump prometheus-to-sd to 0.3.1 to pick up security fixes, bug fixes and new features.
    * [event-exporter addon] Bump event-exporter to 0.2.3 to pick up security fixes.