- Fixed a scheduler racing issue to ensure low priority pods are unschedulable on the node(s) where high priority pods have `NominatedNodeName` set to the node(s).  ([#77990](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77990), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

### Storage

- `CSINodeInfo` and `CSIDriver` CRDs have been installed in the local cluster. ([#72584](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72584), [@xing-yang](https://github.com/xing-yang))
- Node OS/arch labels have been promoted to GA ([#73048](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73048), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

* Fix PodAntiAffinity issues in case of multiple affinityTerms. ([#68173](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68173), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
* Make APIGroup field in TypedLocalObjectReference optional. ([#68419](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68419), [@xing-yang](https://github.com/xing-yang))

- Fixed a scheduler panic when using PodAffinity. ([#82841](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82841), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
- Take the context as the first argument of Schedule. ([#82119](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82119), [@wgliang](https://github.com/wgliang))

* Fixed a scheduler panic when using PodAffinity. ([#82841](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82841), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

    * debian-base version 0.3.1 is already available.
* Fix an issue that pods using hostNetwork keep increasing. ([#67456](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67456), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

* GCE: provide an option to disable docker's live-restore on COS/ubuntu ([#55260](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55260), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))
* Fix kube-proxy hang due to panic when requesting a closed healthcheck. ([#46450](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46450), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

* Kubelet won't evict a static pod with priority `system-node-critical` upon resource pressure. ([#74222](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74222), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))



# v1.11.9

[Documentation](https://docs.k8s.io)

## Downloads for v1.11.9


filename | sha512 hash
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- Report kube-scheduler unhealthy if leader election is deadlocked. ([#71085](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71085), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))
- Fixed a potential bug that scheduler preempts unnecessary pods. ([#70898](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70898), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))

### SIG Storage

*   `kubectl create pdb` no longer sets the min-available field by default. ([#53047](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53047),[ @yuexiao-wang](https://github.com/yuexiao-wang))
*   The canonical pronunciation of kubectl is "cube control".