- Fix the log verbosity level of some non-error logs that were incorrectly logged at error level ([#136046](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/136046), [@Tanner-Gladson](https://github.com/Tanner-Gladson)) [SIG API Machinery and Apps]

- Fixed a regression that could incorrectly reject pods with OutOfCpu errors if they were rapidly scheduled after other pods were reported as complete in the API. The Kubelet now waits to report the phase of a pod as terminal in the API until all running containers are guaranteed to have stopped and no new containers can be started.  Short-lived pods may take...

- Fix a bug on the endpoint slices mirroring controller where endpoint NotReadyAddresses were mirrored as Ready to the corresponding EndpointSlice ([#102683](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102683), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea)) [SIG Apps and Network]

([#77457](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77457), [@danielqsj](https://github.com/danielqsj))

- Fixed an issue in register-gen where imports for k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime and k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema were missing. ([#129307](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129307), [@LionelJouin](https://github.com/LionelJouin)) [SIG API Machinery]

- Modified command line errors (for example, `kubectl list` -> `unknown command`) that were printed as log message with escaped line breaks instead of a multi-line plain text, making the error hard to read. ([#107044](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107044), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

    * 2. IPv4: api-server will assign an IP from a `service-cluster-ip-range` that is `ipv4` (either the primary or the secondary, according to how they were configured).
    * 2. IPv6: api-server will assign an IP from a `service-cluster-ip-range` that is `ipv6` (either the primary or the secondary, according to how they were configured).
    * Notes (v1.16):

- Fix an ephemeral port exhaustion bug caused by improper connection management that occurred when a large number of objects were handled by kubectl while exec auth was in use. ([#112336](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112336), [@enj](https://github.com/enj)) [SIG API Machinery and Auth]

  * The gce metadata server can now be hidden behind a proxy, hiding the kubelet's token. ([#45565](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45565), [@Q-Lee](https://github.com/Q-Lee))

* OpenStack:

    * Fix issue during LB creation where ports were incorrectly assigned to a floating IP ([#44387](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44387), [@jamiehannaford](https://github.com/jamiehannaford))

SIG Node iterated on the ability to support more workloads with better performance and improved reliability.  Alpha features were improved around hardware accelerator support, device plugins enablement, and cpu pinning policies to enable us to graduate these features to beta in a future release.  In addition, a number of reliability and performance enhancements were made across the node to help operators in production.

### OpenStack