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- Graduating `controller_admission_duration_seconds`, `step_admission_duration_seconds`, `webhook_admission_duration_seconds`, `apiserver_current_inflight_requests` and `apiserver_response_sizes` metrics to stable. ([#106122](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106122), [@rezakrimi](https://github.com/rezakrimi)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Testing]

- **Admission webhooks:** Admission webhooks are in widespread use as a Kubernetes extensibility mechanism and have been available in beta since the 1.9 release. The 1.16 release marks the graduation of admission webhooks to general availability (GA).

- Fixed bug that prevented the alpha feature `PodTopologyLabelAdmission` from working due to checking for the incorrect label key when copying topology labels. This bug delayed the graduation of the feature to beta by an additional release to allow time for meaningful feedback. ([#132462](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132462), [@munnerz](https://github.com/munnerz))

- Added e2e test to node expand volume with secret ([#115451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115451), [@zhucan](https://github.com/zhucan))
- Added e2e tests for kubectl `--subresource` for beta graduation ([#116590](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116590), [@MadhavJivrajani](https://github.com/MadhavJivrajani))

- Prepared Pod validation to handle version skew for InPlacePodVerticalScaling's beta graduation. ([#128186](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128186), [@sreeram-venkitesh](https://github.com/sreeram-venkitesh))

NodeLocal DNSCache is an add-on that runs a dnsCache pod as a daemonset to improve clusterDNS performance and reliability. The feature has been in Alpha since 1.13 release. The SIG Network is announcing the GA graduation of Node Local DNSCache [#1351](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/pull/1351)

## Known Issues

No Known Issues Reported

## Urgent Upgrade Notes

### SIG Network

The main milestones for SIG Network this release are the graduation of IPVS-based load balancing and CoreDNS to general availability.

* Support KUBE_MAX_PD_VOLS on Azure ([#41398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41398), [@codablock](https://github.com/codablock))
* Mark multi-scheduler graduation to beta and then v1. ([#38871](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38871), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))