### SIG Big Data

During the 1.13 release cycle, SIG Big Data has been focused on community engagements relating to 3rd-party project integrations with Kubernetes. There have been no impacts on the 1.13 release.

### SIG CLI

- VSphere releases less than 7.0u2 are not supported for in-tree vSphere volume  as of Kubernetes...

* Fixed a bug in the single-numa-node policy of the TopologyManager.  Previously, pods that only requested CPU resources and did not request any third-party devices would fail to launch with a TopologyAffinity error. Now they will launch successfully. ([#83697](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83697), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska))

flexible alternative to `EmptyDir` volumes: as with `EmptyDir`, volumes are created and deleted for each pod automatically by Kubernetes. But because the normal provisioning process is used (`PersistentVolumeClaim`), storage can be provided by third-party storage vendors and all of the usual volume features work. Volumes don't need to be empty; for example, restoring from snapshot is supported. ([#92784](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92784), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API...

- Kubectl [get and describe](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/515) now works with extensions
- Nodes now support [third party monitoring plugins](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/606).
- A new [Scheduling Framework](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/624) for schedule plugins is now Alpha.

  It is possible that this will cause problems with some third-party components
  that improperly depended on those rules. If this affects you, you can run
  `kubelet` with `--feature-gates=IPTablesOwnershipCleanup=false`, but a bug should also be filed against the third-party component. ([#114472](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114472), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship))

* `apply` falls back to generic 3-way JSON merge patch for Third Party Resource or unregistered types ([#40666](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40666), [@ymqytw](https://github.com/ymqytw))

#### Updates to edit
* `edit` now supports Third party resources and extension API servers. ([#41304](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41304), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

The focus of this release is **compatibility** with Pydantic v1 and v2, to make sure your current apps keep working. Later there will be more focus on refactors, correctness, code improvements, and then **performance** improvements. Some third-party early beta testers that ran benchmarks on the beta releases of FastAPI reported improvements of **2x - 3x**. Which is not bad for just doing `pip install --upgrade fastapi pydantic`. This was not an official benchmark and I didn't check it myself,...

information. ([#58418](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58418), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

* The Kubelet now explicitly registers all of its command-line flags with an internal flagset, which prevents flags from third party libraries from unintentionally leaking into the Kubelet's command-line API. Many unintentionally leaked flags are now marked deprecated, so that users have a chance to migrate away from them before they are removed. In addition, one previously leaked...

For the 1.9 release, SIG Storage made Kubernetes more pluggable and modular by introducing an alpha implementation of the Container Storage Interface (CSI). CSI will make installing new volume plugins as easy as deploying a pod, and enable third-party storage providers to develop their plugins without the need to add code to the core Kubernetes codebase.