does not support protobuf encoding, if you roll back to 1.5 after upgrading to
protobuf you will be forced to restore from backup, and you will lose any changes
since you converted to protobuf.  After conversion to protobuf, you should
validate the correct operation of your cluster thoroughly before returning it
to normal operation.

- Clients may now request that API objects are converted to the `v1.Table` and `v1.PartialObjectMetadata` forms for generic access to objects. ([#77448](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77448), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

* Fixes panic if a kubelet is run against an older kube-apiserver ([#74529](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74529), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* The resource group name in Azure providerID is not converted to lower cases. ([#74882](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74882), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* DaemonSet’s spec.templateGeneration has been deprecated.  ([#45924](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45924), [@janetkuo](https://github.com/janetkuo))

### kube-proxy