(N-3). This aligns with the recent change made by SIG Architecture that extends the support skew between the control plane and kubelets. Tolerate this new kubelet skew for the commands `init`, `join` and `upgrade`. Note that if the `kubeadm` user applies a control plane version that is older than the `kubeadm` version (N-1 maximum) then the skew between the kubelet and control plane would become a maximum of N-2. ([#120825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120825), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))...

- Apimachinery/clock: This deletes the apimachinery/clock package. Please use k8s.io/utils/clock instead. ([#109752](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109752), [@MadhavJivrajani](https://github.com/MadhavJivrajani)) [SIG API Machinery]

  - Please adapt your tooling built on top of kubeadm to use the "node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane" label.
  - The taint applied to control-plane nodes "node-role.kubernetes.io/master:NoSchedule" is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release after a GA deprecation period.

## Downloads for v1.9.1


filename | sha256 hash
-------- | -----------
[kubernetes.tar.gz](https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.9.1/kubernetes.tar.gz) | `0eece0e6c1f68535ea71b58b87e239019bb57fdd61118f3d7defa6bbf4fad5ee`

.io/control-plane:NoSchedule" will be added to control plane nodes. In release 1.20 ("first stage"), a release note instructed to preemptively tolerate the new taint. For clusters that are being upgraded to 1.24 with "kubeadm upgrade apply", the command will add the new taint "node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane:NoSchedule" to existing control plane nodes. Please adapt your infrastructure to these changes. In 1.25 the old taint "node-role.kubernetes.io/master:NoSchedule" will be removed. ([#10...

### Feature

- Add flag --lease-max-object-size and metric etcd_lease_object_counts for kube-apiserver to config and observe max objects attached to a single etcd lease. ([#97480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97480), [@lingsamuel](https://github.com/lingsamuel)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Scalability]

Check the [release notes website](https://relnotes.k8s.io/?releaseVersions=1.15.0) for the complete changelog of notable features and fixes.




## Known Issues

- Concurrently joining control-plane nodes does not work as expected in kubeadm 1.15.0. The feature was planned for release in 1.15.0, but a fix may  come in a follow up patch release.

It can be used to tell kubeadm to wait for all control plane components to be ready when running "kubeadm init" or "kubeadm join --control-plane". Currently kubeadm only waits for the kube-apiserver. The "kubeadm join" workflow now includes a new experimental phase called "wait-control-plane". This phase will be marked as non-experimental when WaitForAllControlPlaneComponents becomes GA. Accordingly a "kubeadm init" phase "wait-control-plane" will also be available once WaitForAllControlPlaneComponents...

Kubernetes' default backend storage, etcd, has a new release 3.5.0 and the community embraced it. The new release comes with improvements to the Security, performance, monitoring and developer experience. There are numerous bug fixes to lease objects causing memory leaks, and compact operation causing deadlocks and more. A couple of new features are also introduced like the migration to structured logging and build in log rotation. The release comes with a detailed future roadmap to implement a solution...

LocalPersistentVolume features are beta and enabled by default.  The PersistentVolume NodeAffinity alpha annotation is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. ([#59391](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59391), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

* The alpha Accelerators feature gate is deprecated and will be removed in v1.11. Please use device plugins ([https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/368](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/368)) instead. They...