* fix azure file plugin failure issue on Windows after node restart ([#60625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60625), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixes the races around devicemanager Allocate() and endpoint deletion. ([#60856](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60856), [@jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))



# v1.9.6

* Fixed race conditions around devicemanager Allocate() and endpoint deletion. ([#60856](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60856), [@jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))

- Cloud-controller-manager: routes controller should not depend on --allocate-node-cidrs ([#97029](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97029), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Testing]

- Fixed a bug where the CPU set allocated to an init container, with containerRestartPolicy of `Always`, were erroneously reused by a regular container. ([#119447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119447), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node and Testing]

    
- Kubeadm: improve the validation of serviceSubnet and podSubnet.
  ServiceSubnet has to be limited in size, due to implementation details, and the mask can not allocate more than 20 bits.
  PodSubnet validates against the corresponding cluster "--node-cidr-mask-size" of the kube-controller-manager, it fail if the values are not compatible.

- Image garbage collection no longer fails for images with only one tag but more than one repository associated. ([#70647](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70647), [@corvus-ch](https://github.com/corvus-ch))
- Re-issued Allocate grpc calls before starting a container that requests device-plugin resources if the cached state is missing. ([#73824](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73824), [@jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))

- During device plugin allocation, resources requested by the pod can only be allocated if the device plugin has registered itself to kubelet AND healthy devices are present on the node to be allocated. If these conditions are not sattsfied, the pod would fail with `UnexpectedAdmissionError` error. ([#117719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117719), [@swatisehgal](https://g...

- During device plugin allocation, resources requested by the pod can only be allocated if the device plugin has registered itself to kubelet AND healthy devices are present on the node to be allocated. If these conditions are not sattisfied, the pod would fail with `UnexpectedAdmissionError` error. ([#116337](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116337), [@swatisehgal](https://...

* Applies zone labels to vSphere Volumes and honors allowedTopologies when provisioning. ([#74654](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74654), [@subramanian-neelakantan](https://github.com/subramanian-neelakantan))
* Re-issue Allocate grpc calls before starting a container that requests device-plugin resources if the cached state is missing. ([#73824](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73824), [@jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))

- New feature gate, ServiceIPStaticSubrange, to enable the new strategy in the Service IP allocators, so the IP range is subdivided and dynamic allocated ClusterIP addresses for Services are allocated preferently from the upper range. ([#106792](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106792), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))