- Updates that remove remaining `metadata.finalizers` from  an object that is pending deletion (non-nil metadata.deletionTimestamp) and has no graceful deletion pending (nil or 0 metadata.deletionGracePeriodSeconds) now results in immediate deletion of the object. ([#77952](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77952), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* vSphere: allow SAML token delegation (required for Zones support) ([#78876](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78876), [@dougm](https://github.com/dougm))

  In order to perform an unsafe deletion of a corrupt resource, the user must enable the option for the delete
  request. A resource is considered corrupt if it can not be successfully retrieved from the storage due to
  a) transformation error e.g. decryption failure, or b) the object failed to decode. Normal deletion flow is

* 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

* When deleting an object with `--grace-period=0`, the client will begin a graceful deletion and wait until the resource is fully deleted.  To force deletion, use the `--force` flag. ([#37263](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37263), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

### Node Components

  without risking breaking old clients, such as controllers.

- `kubectl delete` no longer scales down workload API objects before deletion.
  Users who depend on ordered termination for the Pods of their StatefulSets
  must use `kubectl scale` to scale down the StatefulSet before deletion.

- `kubectl run --env` no longer supports CSV parsing. To provide multiple environment

- The default delegating authorization options now allow unauthenticated access to healthz, readyz, and livez.  A system:masters user connecting to an authz delegator will not perform an authz check. ([#98325](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98325), [@deads2k](https://github.com/deads2k)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cloud Provider...

* Updates Cinder AttachDisk operation to be more reliable by delegating Detaches to volume manager. ([#50042](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50042), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

- Users will see increase in time for deletion of pods and also guarantee that removal of pod from api server  would mean deletion of all the resources from container runtime. ([#92817](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92817), [@kmala](https://github.com/kmala)) [SIG Node]

- Code-gen: Removed lowercasing for project imports ([#68484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68484), [@jsturtevant](https://github.com/jsturtevant))
- Fixed client cert setup in delegating authentication logic ([#69430](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69430), [@DirectXMan12](https://github.com/DirectXMan12))