* faster handoff when a leader-elected process is gracefully terminated.
* Make volume binder resilient to races between main schedule loop and async binding operation  ([#72045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72045), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

Kubernetes 1.15 consists of **25 enhancements**: 2 moving to stable, 13 in beta, and 10 in alpha. The main themes of this release are:

#### Continuous Improvement

* fix azure disk create failure due to sdk upgrade ([#67236](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67236), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Kubeadm join --control-plane main workflow ([#66873](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66873), [@fabriziopandini](https://github.com/fabriziopandini))

  Notes:
   * Tika supports a wider range of match types than Freedesktop does
   * Glob patterns must be unique, if there's a clash assign to the most
     popular format
   * The main mime type should be the canonical one, use aliases for any
     other widely used forms
   * Where there's a hierarchy in the types, list it via a parent
   * Highly specific magic matches get a high priority

* Restored cAdvisor prometheus metrics to the main port -- a regression that existed in v1.7.0-v1.7.2 ([#49079](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49079), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.16, our third release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.16 consists of 31 enhancements: 8 enhancements moving to stable, 8 enhancements in beta, and 15 enhancements in alpha.

The main themes of this release are:

### Etcd v3.5.[0-2] data corruption

Data corruption issue was found in etcd v3.5.0 release that was shipped with 1.22 Kubernetes release. Please read up-to-date [production recommendations for etcd](https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/main/CHANGELOG).

## Urgent Upgrade Notes 

### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

pkg syscall, type Timeval struct
pkg syscall, var ForkLock sync.RWMutex
pkg syscall, var SocketDisableIPv6 bool
pkg testing, func Benchmark(func(*B)) BenchmarkResult
pkg testing, func Main(func(string, string) (bool, error), []InternalTest, []InternalBenchmark, []InternalExample)
pkg testing, func RunBenchmarks(func(string, string) (bool, error), []InternalBenchmark)