### Bug or Regression

- An issue preventing the daemonset controller to retry on status updates that failed because of conflicts is now fixed. ([#107639](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107639), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG Apps]

* GCE: Fixes loadbalancer creation and deletion issues appearing in 1.10.5. ([#66400](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66400), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))
* fixes spurious "meaningful conflict" error encountered by nodes attempting to update status, which could cause them to be considered unready ([#66169](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66169), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* fixes spurious "meaningful conflict" error encountered by nodes attempting to update status, which could cause them to be considered unready ([#66171](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66171), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- client-go discovery clients constructed using `NewDiscoveryClientForConfig` or `NewDisco...

- Kube-apiserver: fixed a conflict error encountered attempting to delete a pod with gracePeriodSeconds=0 and a resourceVersion precondition ([#85516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85516), [@michaelgugino](https://github.com/michaelgugino)) [SIG API Machinery]

### SIG Apps

- The service controller will now retry creating the load balancer when `persistUpdate` fails due to conflict. ([#68087](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68087), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))

* Fix a bug with binding mount directories and files using flexVolumes ([#49118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49118), [@adelton](https://github.com/adelton))
* PodPreset is not injected if conflict occurs while applying PodPresets to a Pod. ([#47864](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47864), [@droot](https://github.com/droot))

* Let service controller retry creating load balancer when persistUpdate failed due to conflict. ([#68087](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68087), [@grayluck](https://github.com/grayluck))

- Resolves flakes in the Ingress conformance tests due to conflicts with controllers updating the Ingress object ([#98430](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98430), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Network and Testing]

## Dependencies

### Added

- Update Go used to build migrate script in etcd image to v1.16.7. ([#104301](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104301), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))
- Updated json representation for a conflicted taint to `Key=Effect` when a conflicted taint occurs in kubectl taint. ([#104011](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104011), [@manugupt1](https://github.com/manugupt1))
- Upgrades functionality of `kubectl kustomize` as described at