- 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,...

### SIG Cloud Provider

- Azure VMSS/VMSSVM clients now suppress requests on throttling ([#86740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86740), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Azure cloud provider cache TTL is configurable, list of the azure cloud provider is as following:
  - "availabilitySetNodesCacheTTLInSeconds"
  - "vmssCacheTTLInSeconds"

- 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]

([#64706](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64706), [@liztio](https://github.com/liztio))

### OpenStack

SIG-OpenStack updated the OpenStack provider to use newer APIs, consolidated community code into one repository, engaged with the Cloud Provider Working Group to have a consistent plan for moving provider code into individual repositories, improved testing of provider code, and strengthened ties with the OpenStack developer community.

### API-machinery