s/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/). Node affinity/anti-affinity allow you to specify rules for restricting which node(s) a pod can schedule onto, based on the labels on the node. Pod affinity/anti-affinity allow you to specify rules for spreading and packing pods relative to one another, across arbitrary topologies (node, zone, etc.) These affinity rules are now be specified in a new-in-1.6 `affinity` field of the PodSpec. Kubernetes 1.6 continues to support the alpha `scheduler.alpha.ku...

#### kubelet:

- The calculations for Pod topology spread skew now exclude 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),
  especially when the `topologyKey` is not node-level. Revisit the node affinity and/or pod selector in the

large collections. Streaming list responses can be disabled via the `StreamingJSONListEncoding` feature gate. ([#129334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129334), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery, Architecture and Release]

- Introduces new alpha functionality to the reflector, allowing user to enable API streaming.
  
  To activate this feature, users can set the `ENABLE_CLIENT_GO_WATCH_LIST_ALPHA` environmental variable.
  It is important to note that the server must support streaming for this feature to function properly.
  If streaming is not supported by the server, the reflector will revert to the previous method

- Fix system default topology spreading when nodes don't have zone labels. Pods correctly spread by default now. ([#105046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105046), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor))

    * --proxy-mode=ipvs
    * --cluster-cidrs=<cidr>,<cidr>
* The apiserver now uses http/1.1 to communicate with admission webhooks, opening multiple connections to satisfy concurrent requests, and allowing spreading requests across multiple backing pods. ([#82090](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82090), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Introduces new functionality to the client-go's `List` method, allowing users to enable API streaming. To activate this feature, users can set the `client-go.WatchListClient` feature gate.
  

- Implemented API for streaming for the `etcd` store implementation.
  When `sendInitialEvents ListOption` is set together with `watch=true`, it begins the watch stream with synthetic init events followed by a synthetic `Bookmark`, after which the server continues streaming events. ([#119557](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119557), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))

- Removed support for API streaming from the REST client. ([#132285](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132285), [@p0lyn0mial](https://github.com/p0lyn0mial))