- In some cases, a Flex volume resize may leave a PVC with erroneous Resizing condition even after volume has been successfully expanded. Users may choose to delete the condition, but it is not required. ([#71470](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/71470))

* Fix a typo in prometheus-to-sd configuration, that drops some stackdriver metrics. ([#56473](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56473), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

Before updating to 1.9, you are strongly recommended to back up your etcd data. Consult the installation procedure you are using (kargo, kops, kube-up, kube-aws, kubeadm etc) for specific advice.

- Sometimes, the scheduler incorrectly placed a pod in the "unschedulable" queue instead of the "backoff" queue. This happened when some plugin previously declared the pod as "unschedulable" and then in a later attempt encounters some other error. Scheduling of that pod then got delayed by up to five minutes, after which periodic flushing moved the pod back into the "active" queue. ([#120334](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120334),...

this validation. Bypassing this validation could allow authenticated requests destined for Nodes to be redirected to the API Server through its private network.

The merged fix enforces validation against the proxying address for a Node. In some cases, the fix can break clients that depend on the `nodes/proxy` subresource, specifically if a kubelet advertises a localhost or link-local address to the Kubernetes control plane. Configuring an egress proxy for egress to the cluster network can...

* add GRS, RAGRS storage account type support for azure disk ([#55931](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55931), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fix a typo in prometheus-to-sd configuration, that drops some stackdriver metrics. ([#56473](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56473), [@loburm](https://github.com/loburm))

A new [v1beta3 configuration API](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/issues/1796). It [iterates over v1beta2](https://pkg.go.dev/k8s.io/kubernetes/cmd/kubeadm/app/apis/kubeadm/v1beta3) by adding some long requested features and deprecating some existing ones. The `V1beta3` is now the preferred API version; the `v1beta2` API also remains available and is not yet deprecated.

### etcd moves to version 3.5.0

* Azure cloudprovider: Reduce the polling delay for all azure clients to 5 seconds. This should speed up some operations at the cost of some additional quota. ([#43699](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43699), [@colemickens](https://github.com/colemickens))

- The kubernetes repo now uses Go workspaces.  This should not impact end users at all, but does have impact for developers of downstream projects.  Switching to workspaces caused some breaking changes in the flags to the various k8s.io/code-generator tools.  Downstream consumers should look at staging/src/k8s.io/code-generator/kube_codegen.sh to see the changes. ([#123529](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123529), ...

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