* You can find out what taints you have in place on a node while you are still running Kubernetes 1.5 by doing `kubectl describe node <node name>`; the `Taints` section will show the taints you have in place. To see the taints that were created under 1.5 when you are running 1.6, do `kubectl get node <node name> -o yaml` and look for the...

structurally equivalent; that is, they have the same literal structure and corresponding
components have identical types. In detail:
</p>

<ul>
	<li>Two array types are identical if they have identical element types and
	    the same array length.</li>

	<li>Two slice types are identical if they have identical element types.</li>

- Newly provisioned PVs by vSphere in-tree plugin will no longer have the beta FailureDomain label. vSphere volume plugin will start to have GA topology label instead. ([#102414](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102414), [@divyenpatel](https://github.com/divyenpatel)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Storage and Testing]

- New Azure instance types do now have correct max data disk count information. ([#94340](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94340), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

  
  Action required for custom scheduler plugin developers:
  Plugins **have to** implement a QueueingHint for Pod/Update event if the rejection from them could be resolved by updating unscheduled Pods themselves.
  Example: suppose you develop a custom plugin that denies Pods that have a `schedulable=false` label. 

- Kubeadm: external etcd endpoints passed in the `ClusterConfiguration` that have Unicode characters are no longer IDNA encoded (converted to Punycode). They are now just URL encoded as per Go's implementation of RFC-3986, have duplicate "/" removed from the URL paths, and passed like that directly to the `kube-apiserver` `--etcd-servers` flag. If you have etcd endpoints that have Unicode characters, it is advisable to encode them in advance with tooling that is fully IDNA compliant....

methods in generated clientsets, dynamic, metadata, and scale clients have been modified to accept `context.Context` as a first argument. Signatures of Create, Update, and Patch methods have been updated to accept CreateOptions, UpdateOptions and PatchOptions respectively. Signatures of Delete and DeleteCollection methods now accept DeleteOptions by value instead of by reference. Generated clientsets with the previous interface have been added in new "deprecated" packages to allow incremental migration...

- The cloudstack and ovirt controllers have been deprecated and will be removed in a future version. ([#68199](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68199), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

### API-machinery

  an external cloud provider that has been updated to support the feature,
  you can pass comma-separated dual-stack `--node-ips` to `kubelet` and have
  the cloud provider take both IPs into account. ([#120275](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120275), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))