### **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.

  * Support for ELB tagging by users ([#45932](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45932), [@lpabon](https://github.com/lpabon))

* Azure:

  * Add support for UDP ports ([#45523](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45523), [@colemickens](https://github.com/colemickens))

    * Fix container memory rss
    * Add hugepages monitoring support
    * Fix incorrect CPU usage metrics with 4.7 kernel
    * Add tmpfs monitoring support
* Support for Huge pages in empty_dir volume plugin ([#50072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50072), [@squall0gd](https://github.com/squall0gd))

### Windows

This release continues to enable more existing features on Windows, including container CPU resources, image filesystem stats, and flexvolumes. It also adds Windows service control manager support and experimental support for Hyper-V isolation of single-container pods.

    * Adds support for 1.5.x series of Kubernetes
    * Introduces a tactic for keeping templates in sync with upstream eliminating template drift
    * Adds CNI support to the Juju Charms
    * Adds durable storage support to the Juju Charms
    * Introduces an e2e Charm layer for repeatable testing efforts and validation of clusters

- Add support support to Manilla for trustee authentication and supplying custom CAs.
- Add and update documentation.
- Add support to Manilla for provisioning existing shares.
- Add cluster name to load balancer description
- Add synchronization between Kubernetes and Keystone projects
- Add use internal DNS name for 'hostname' of nodes.
- Add support for CSI spec v0.3.0 for both Cinder and Manilla

🚨 This is probably the last release (or one of the last releases) to support Python 3.6. 🔥

Python 3.6 reached the [end-of-life and is no longer supported by Python](https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3615/) since around a year ago.

You hopefully updated to a supported version of Python a while ago. If you haven't, you really should.

### Features

- StatefulSet is supported in `kubectl autoscale` command ([#71103](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71103), [@Pingan2017](https://github.com/Pingan2017))

* sysctl support is now considered beta ([ref](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/34))
* Support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets is now considered beta. ([ref](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/513))
* Azure support for Cluster Autoscaler is now considered beta. ([ref](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/514))

- Added `UserNamespacesPodSecurityStandards` feature gate to enable user namespace support for Pod Security Standards.
  Enabling this feature will modify all Pod Security Standard rules to allow setting: `spec[.*].securityContext.[runAsNonRoot,runAsUser]`.
  This feature gate should only be enabled if all nodes in the cluster support the user namespace feature and have it enabled.