* - clusters moving from IPv4 to duakstack will require no changes
    * - clusters moving from IPv6 (while not seen in the wild, we can not rule out their existence) to dualstack will require deleting backend pools (the reconciler will take care of creating correct backendpools)
* Promotes VolumePVCDataSource (Cloning) feature to beta for 1.16 release  ([#81792](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81792), [@j-griffith](https://github.com/j-griffith))

- 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]

### Bug or Regression

- Fix endpoint reconciler not being able to delete the apiserver lease on shutdown ([#114154](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114154), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG API Machinery]

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

## Changelog since v1.26.0-rc.0

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Fix endpoint reconciler not being able to delete the apiserver lease on shutdown ([#114122](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114122), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG API Machinery]

   ([#123273](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123273), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))
- Added alpha-level support for the SuccessPolicy in Jobs.

- kube-proxy now reconciles Service/Endpoint changes with conntrack table and cleans up only stale UDP flow entries ([#127318](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127318), [@aroradaman](https://github.com/aroradaman)) [SIG Network and Windows]

  commands apply to uninitialized objects. See the
  [initializer documentation](https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/extensible-admission-controllers/) for more details.

- Added RBAC reconcile commands with `kubectl auth reconcile -f FILE`. When
  passed a file which contains RBAC roles, rolebindings, clusterroles, or
  clusterrolebindings, this command computes covers and adds the missing rules.

- Fixed the bug where if Endpointslices mirrored from Endpoints by the EndpointSliceMirroring controller they would not reconcile if modified. were not reconciled if modified ([#124131](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124131), [@zyjhtangtang](https://github.com/zyjhtangtang)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- Fix a bug on the endpoints controller that does not reconcile the Endpoint object after this is truncated (it gets more than 1000 endpoints addresses) ([#127417](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127417), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Apps, Network and Testing]

- HPA controller starts to expose metrics from the kube-controller-manager.\n- `reconciliations_total`: Number of reconciliation of HPA controller. \n- `reconciliation_duration_seconds`: The time(seconds) that the HPA controller takes to reconcile once. ([#116010](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116010), [@sanposhiho](https://github.com/sanposhiho))