* remove time waiting after create storage account (save 25s) ([#56679](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56679), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Add pvc as part of equivalence hash ([#56577](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56577), [@resouer](https://github.com/resouer))

## Changelog since v1.9.0-beta.1

### Other notable changes

* Add pvc as part of equivalence hash ([#56577](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56577), [@resouer](https://github.com/resouer))

* Mark multi-scheduler graduation to beta and then v1. ([#38871](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38871), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))
* Scheduler treats StatefulSet pods as belonging to a single equivalence class. ([#39718](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39718), [@foxish](https://github.com/foxish))

### SIG Scheduling

- The equivalence class cache has been redesigned to be a two level cache, resulting in a significant increase in scheduling throughput and performance. ([#65714](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65714), [@resouer](https://github.com/resouer))

* Use monotonically increasing generation to prevent scheduler equivalence cache race. ([#67308](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67308), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

    * regions ("failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region") in favor of their GA equivalents:
    * "topology.kubernetes.io/zone" and "topology.kubernetes.io/region".
    * The beta labels "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone" and "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region" will be removed in v1.21

- When using `kubectl replace` (or the equivalent API call) on a Service, the caller no longer needs to do a read-modify-write cycle to fetch the allocated values for `.spec.clusterIP` and `.spec.ports[].nodePort`.  Instead the API server will automatically carry these forward from the original...

    * Before upgrading, users must ensure their controller manager will enable the csrapproving controller, create an RBAC ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding to approve CSRs for the same group, then upgrade. Example roles to enable the equivalent behavior can be found in the [TLS bootstrapping](https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/kubelet-tls-bootstrapping/) documentation.


### kubectl (CLI)

- Third party device monitoring is now beta, and enabled...

  127.0.0.1. (Also note that there are currently no command-line arguments
  for the nftables-specific config; you will need to use a config file if
  you want to set the equivalent of any of the `--iptables-xxx` options.)
  
  As this code is still very new, it has not been heavily optimized yet;
  while it is expected to _eventually_ have better performance than the