* [IPVS] Allow for transparent kube-proxy restarts ([#75283](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75283), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

* [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))

    * 2. IPv4: api-server will assign an IP from a `service-cluster-ip-range` that is `ipv4` (either the primary or the secondary, according to how they were configured).
    * 2. IPv6: api-server will assign an IP from a `service-cluster-ip-range` that is `ipv6` (either the primary or the secondary, according to how they were configured).
    * Notes (v1.16):
    * 1. IPVS is the only proxy supported (as of v1.16 ) by Dualstack.

### **Network**

#### **IPv6**

*   [alpha] IPv6 support has been added. Notable IPv6 support details include:
    *   Support for IPv6-only Kubernetes cluster deployments. **<span style="text-decoration:underline;">Note:</span>** This feature does not provide dual-stack support.
    *   Support for IPv6 Kubernetes control and data planes.
    *   Support for Kubernetes IPv6 cluster deployments using kubeadm.

* You can now use `--ipvs-exclude-cidrs` to specify a list of CIDR's which the IPVS proxier should not touch when cleaning up IPVS rules. ([#62083](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62083), [@rramkumar1](https://github.com/rramkumar1))

* fix azure disk list corruption issue ([#77187](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77187), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

 
#### kube-proxy:
- Added kube-proxy flags `--ipvs-tcp-timeout`, `--ipvs-tcpfin-timeout`, `--ipvs-udp-timeout` to configure IPVS connection timeouts. ([#85517](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85517), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Network]

### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

### OpenStack

* Fixed a bug in the OpenStack cloud provider where dual stack deployments (IPv4 and IPv6) did not work well when using kubenet as the network plugin. ([#59749](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59749), [@zioproto](https://github.com/zioproto))

- File content check for IPV4 is now enabled by default, and the check of IPV4 or IPV6 is done for `kubeadm init` or `kubeadm join` only in case the user intends to create a cluster to support that kind of IP address family ([#115420](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115420), [@chendave](http...