- The in-tree cloud provider for AWS (and the EBS storage plugin) has now been removed. Please use the external cloud provider and CSI driver from https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-aws instead. ([#115838](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115838), [@torredil](https://github.com/torredil)) [SIG API Machinery,...

- The in-tree cloud provider for OpenStack (and the cinder volume provider) has been removed. Please use the external cloud provider and csi driver from [cloud-provider-openstack](https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-openstack) instead. ([#67782](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67782), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- Fix: ignore the case when updating Azure tags (#104686, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Revert PR #102925 which introduced unexpected scheduling behavior based on balanced resource allocation (#105238, @damemi) [SIG Scheduling]
- Updates golang.org/x/text to v0.3.6 to fix CVE-2020-28852 (#102601, @jonesbr17) [SIG API Machinery, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation, Node and Storage]

* Dual stack services (Phase II of IPv6DualStack feature) are enabled via the IPVS proxier. iptables proxier does not support dualstack yet. Dualstack iptables proxier is WIP and should catchup soon. ([#82091](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82091), [@khenidak](https://github.com/khenidak))
    * to enable, kube-proxy must be have the following flags:

- Fixing issue with Winkernel Proxier - ClusterIP Loadbalancers are missing if the ExternalTrafficPolicy is set to Local and the available endpoints are all remoteEndpoints. ([#116000](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116000), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network]

- JobReadyPods graduates to Beta and it's enabled by default. ([#107476](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107476), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Testing]

- Updated cri-tools to v1.32.0. ([#129116](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129116), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Upgrade CoreDNS to v1.12.0 ([#128926](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128926), [@bzsuni](https://github.com/bzsuni)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Cluster Lifecycle]

## Dependencies

### Added

- Fix: do not delete the lb that does not exist (#105777, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105185, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: leave the probe path empty for TCP probes (#105253, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Kubernetes is now built with Golang 1.16.9 (#105671, @cpanato) [SIG Cloud Provider, Instrumentation, Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix: consolidate logs for instance not found error (#105366, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105400, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]

  /**
   * By default delegates to {@link Object#hashCode}. The dynamic proxies' {@code hashCode()} will
   * delegate to this method. Subclasses can override this method to provide custom equality.
   */
  @Override
  public int hashCode() {
    return super.hashCode();
  }

  /**
   * By default delegates to {@link Object#toString}. The dynamic proxies' {@code toString()} will