name of controllers that can be turned on/off that are passed to the `--controllers`
  flag (e.g., `pod-garbage-collector-controller`). The old names (eg `podgc`) are
  also accepted and aliased to the new names. ([#115813](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115813), [@atiratree](https://github.com/atiratree))
- `kubeadm`: Introduced a new feature gate `UpgradeAddonsBeforeControlPlane` to

  //
  // * Un-prefixed protocol names - reserved for IANA standard service names (as per
  // RFC-6335 and https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names).
  //
  // * Kubernetes-defined prefixed names:
  //   * 'kubernetes.io/h2c' - HTTP/2 over cleartext as described in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7540
  //
  // * Other protocols should use implementation-defined prefixed names such as
  // mycompany.com/my-custom-protocol.

* Restores the pre-1.10 behavior of the openstack cloud provider which uses the instance name as the Kubernetes Node name. This requires instances be named with RFC-1123 compatible names. ([#63903](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63903), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

## Changelog since v1.9.0

### Other notable changes

* Compare correct file names for volume detach operation ([#57053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57053), [@prashima](https://github.com/prashima))

- Fixes an issue where the vsphere cloud provider will not trust a certificate if:
  - The issuer of the certificate is unknown (x509.UnknownAuthorityError)
  - The requested name does not match the set of authorized names (x509.HostnameError)

* Do not consider master instance zones for dynamic volume creation ([#41702](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41702), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))
* Fix AWS device allocator to only use valid device names ([#41455](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41455), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

* 📝 Add External Link: FastAPI application monitoring made easy. PR [#10917](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/10917) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).
* ✨ Generate automatic language names for docs translations. PR [#5354](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/5354) by [@jakul](https://github.com/jakul).

## Changelog since v1.15.6

### Other notable changes

- Fixed EndpointSlice port name validation to match Endpoint port name validation (allowing port names longer than 15 characters) ([#84481](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84481), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))

- Kubeadm: perform pre-flight validation on host/node name upon `kubeadm init` and `kubeadm join`, showing warnings on non-compliant names ([#99194](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99194), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))