- The prefer nominated node graduates to Beta and enabld by default. ([#102201](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102201), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave))

  // may or may not try to eventually evict the pod from its node.
  // +optional
  optional NodeSelector requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution = 1;

  // The scheduler will prefer to schedule pods to nodes that satisfy
  // the affinity expressions specified by this field, but it may choose
  // a node that violates one or more of the expressions. The node that is

*   Improve resilience by annotating kube-dns addon with podAntiAffinity to prefer scheduling on different nodes. ([#52193](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52193),[ @StevenACoffman](https://github.com/StevenACoffman))

  * Plugins

      * Introduces the ability to extend kubectl by adding third-party plugins. Developer preview, please refer to the documentation for instructions about how to use it. ([#37499](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37499), [@fabianofranz](https://github.com/fabianofranz))

same character constructed from combining an accent and a letter;
those are treated as two code points.  For simplicity, this document
will use the unqualified term <i>character</i> to refer to a Unicode code point
in the source text.
</p>
<p>
Each code point is distinct; for instance, uppercase and lowercase letters
are different characters.
</p>
<p>

### OpenStack

- The `openstack-heat` provider for `kube-up` is deprecated and will be removed
  in a future release. Refer to Issue [#49213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49213)
  for background information.

### Scheduling

  - Opaque Integer Resources (OIRs) are deprecated and will be removed in

- Added a `--topology-manager-policy-options` flag to the kubelet to support fine tuning the topology manager policies. The first policy option, `prefer-closest-numa-nodes`, allows these policies to favor sets of NUMA nodes with shorter distance between nodes when making admission decisions. ([#112914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112914), [@PiotrProkop](https://github.com/PiotrProkop))...

[soft-reserve a range for static IP address assignments](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#service-ip-static-sub-range)
to Services.
With the manual enablement of this feature, the cluster will prefer automatic assignment from
the pool of Service IP addresses thereby reducing the risk of collision.

A Service `ClusterIP` can be assigned:

- Systems running `iptables` 1.8.0 or newer should start it in legacy mode. Please note that this affects all versions of Kubernetes and not only v1.16.0. For more detailed information about the issue and how to apply a workaround, please refer to the official documentation
- Generating informers for packages in directories containing dots in their name is broken. This will be fixed in v1.16.1. ([#82860](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/82860))

For detailed release notes on the three alpha features from SIG AWS, please refer to the following Changelogs:

- [aws-alb-ingress-controller v1.0.0](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/aws-alb-ingress-controller/releases/tag/v1.0.0)