- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105402, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- 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]

- Fix problem in updating VolumeAttached in node status ([#112302](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112302), [@xing-yang](https://github.com/xing-yang)) [SIG Apps]

* Fix AWS NLB security group updates where valid security group ports were incorrectly removed ([#68422](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68422), [@kellycampbell](https://github.com/kellycampbell))
    * when updating a service or when node changes occur.

- Fix invalid VMSS updates due to incorrect cache ([#89002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89002), [@ArchangelSDY](https://github.com/ArchangelSDY)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix the VMSS name and resource group name when updating Azure VMSS for LoadBalancer backendPools ([#89337](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89337), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

	object := ri.Name

	// set defaults for replication action based on operation being performed - actual
	// replication action can only be determined after stat on remote. This default is
	// needed for updating replication metrics correctly when target is offline.
	rAction := replicateMetadata

	rinfo = replicatedTargetInfo{
		Size:                  ri.ActualSize,
		Arn:                   tgt.ARN,

- Metrics for `RetroactiveDefaultStorageClass` feature are now available. To see an attempt count for updating PVC retroactively with a default StorageClass see `retroactive_storageclass_total` metric and for total numer of errors see `retroactive_storageclass_errors_total`. ([#113323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113323), [@RomanBednar]...

- Fix invalid VMSS updates due to incorrect cache ([#89002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89002), [@ArchangelSDY](https://github.com/ArchangelSDY)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix the VMSS name and resource group name when updating Azure VMSS for LoadBalancer backendPools ([#89337](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89337), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

are hence enabled by default. This will be fixed in a future release.
[#38593](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/38593)
* Federation control plane can be upgraded by updating the image
fields in the `Deployment` specs of the control plane components.
However, federation control plane upgrades were not tested in this
release [38537](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/38537)

- Fix: ignore not a VMSS error for VMAS nodes in EnsureBackendPoolDeleted. (#105404, @ialidzhikov) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix: ignore the case when updating Azure tags (#104687, @nilo19) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Revert PR #102925 which introduced unexpected scheduling behavior based on balanced resource allocation (#105239, @damemi) [SIG Scheduling]

[kubernetes-server-linux-s390x.tar.gz](https://dl.k8s.io/v1.6.0/kubernetes-server-linux-s390x.tar.gz) | `e15de8896bd84a9b74756adc1a2e20c6912a65f6ff0a3f3dfabc8b463e31d19b`

## WARNING: etcd backup strongly recommended

Before updating to 1.6, you are strongly recommended to back up your etcd data.
Please consult the installation procedure you are using (kargo, kops, kube-up,
kube-aws, kubeadm etc) for specific advice.