- [`KT-53460`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-53460) False positive smartcast warning in if block after if block
- [`KT-40851`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-40851) False MUST_BE_INITIALIZED_OR_BE_ABSTRACT error for a property which is initialised in the init block
- [`KT-59695`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-59695) K2: false negative NON_PUBLIC_CALL_FROM_PUBLIC_INLINE

* [IPVS] Introduces flag ipvs-strict-arp to configure stricter ARP sysctls, defaulting to false to preserve existing behaviors. This was enabled by default in 1.13.0, which impacted a few CNI plugins. ([#75295](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75295), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

pods from *any* namespace can now request priority classes that compete with and/or cause preemption of critical system pods that are already running. If that is not desired, disable the PodPriority feature by setting `--feature-gates=PodPriority=false` on the kube-apiserver, kube-scheduler, and kubelet components before upgrading to 1.11. Disabling the PodPriority feature limits [critical pods](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/guaranteed-scheduling-critical-addon-pods/#markin...

- The status of v1beta1 CRDs without "preserveUnknownFields:false" now shows a violation, "spec.preserveUnknownFields: Invalid value: true: must be false". ([#93078](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93078), [@vareti](https://github.com/vareti))

- Kube-apiserver: redirect responses are no longer returned from backends by default. Set `--aggregator-reject-forwarding-redirect=false` to continue forwarding redirect responses. ([#112330](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112330), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- Kube-apiserver: redirect responses are no longer returned from backends by default. Set `--aggregator-reject-forwarding-redirect=false` to continue forwarding redirect responses. ([#112331](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112331), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Kube-apiserver: redirect responses are no longer returned from backends by default. Set `--aggregator-reject-forwarding-redirect=false` to continue forwarding redirect responses. ([#112359](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112359), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Kube-apiserver: redirect responses are no longer returned from backends by default. Set `--aggregator-reject-forwarding-redirect=false` to continue forwarding redirect responses. ([#112358](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112358), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Changelog since v1.16.13

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Do not add nodes labeled with kubernetes.azure.com/managed=false to backend pool of load balancer. ([#93034](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93034), [@matthias50](https://github.com/matthias50)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* An `automountServiceAccountToken` field was added to ServiceAccount and PodSpec objects. If set to `false` on a pod spec, no service account token is automounted in the pod. If set to `false` on a service account, no service account token is automounted for that service account unless explicitly overridden in the pod spec. ([#37953](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37953), [@ligg...