- Resolves an issue with the "ServiceAccountIssuerDiscovery should support OIDC discovery" conformance test failing on clusters which are configured with issuers outside the cluster ([#101589](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101589), [@mtaufe...

- Removed leading zeros from the etcd member ID in kubeadm log messages. ([#117919](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117919), [@dlipovetsky](https://github.com/dlipovetsky)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Recreate DaemonSet pods completed with Succeeded phase ([#117496](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117496), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps and Testing]

- Kube-apiserver: resolves possible hung connections using konnectivity network proxy with TCP or UDS HTTP connect configurations ([#113862](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113862), [@jkh52](https://github.com/jkh52)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Kube-controller-manager: Resolves potential issues handling pods with incorrect uids in their ownerReference ([#134658](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134658), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Apps]

Please consult the installation procedure you are using (kargo, kops, kube-up,
kube-aws, kubeadm etc) for specific advice.

1.6 encourages etcd3, and switching from etcd2 to etcd3 involves a full
migration of data between different storage engines.  You must stop the API
from writing to etcd during an etcd2 -> etcd3 migration.  HA installations cannot

- Resolves a spurious "Unknown discovery response content-type" error in client-go discovery requests by tolerating extra content-type parameters in API responses ([#117637](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117637), [@seans3](https://github.com/seans3))...

* Fix a string comparison bug in IPVS graceful termination where UDP real servers are not deleted. ([#78999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78999), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))

- Fix endpoint reconciler not being able to delete the apiserver lease on shutdown ([#114137](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114137), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG API Machinery]
- Resolves an issue that causes winkernel proxier to treat stale VIPs as valid ([#113558](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113558), [@daschott](https://github.com/daschott)) [SIG Network and Windows]

- Makes kubelet's /metrics/slis endpoint always available ([#130084](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130084), [@richabanker](https://github.com/richabanker)) [SIG Architecture, Instrumentation and Node]