- Allow CSI drivers to just run offline expansion tests (#102740, @gnufied) [SIG Storage and Testing]
- Bump klog to v2.9.0, fixing log lines that render as byte arrays (#105407, @ehashman) [SIG Architecture, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation and Storage]
- Fix overriding logs files on reboot. (#105614, @rphillips) [SIG Node]

#### New Deprecations

* As a reminder, etcd2 as a backend is deprecated and support will be removed in Kubernetes 1.13. Please ensure that your clusters are upgraded to etcd3 as soon as possible.

* The dockershim container runtime now accepts the `docker` runtime handler from a RuntimeClass. ([#78323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78323), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))
* GCE: Disable the Windows defender to work around a bug that could cause nodes to crash and reboot ([#78272](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78272), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

  Promote node.k8s.io API groups from v1beta1 to v1. ([#95718](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95718), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Apps, Auth, Node, Scheduling and Testing]

* Windows nodes on GCE now run with Windows Defender enabled. ([#81625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81625), [@pjh](https://github.com/pjh))



# v1.16.0-beta.1

[Documentation](https://docs.k8s.io)

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