* deleteOptions.orphanDependents is going to be deprecated in 1.7. Please use deleteOptions.propagationPolicy instead.

### kubeadm

(N-3). This aligns with the recent change made by SIG Architecture that extends the support skew between the control plane and kubelets. Tolerate this new kubelet skew for the commands `init`, `join` and `upgrade`. Note that if the `kubeadm` user applies a control plane version that is older than the `kubeadm` version (N-1 maximum) then the skew between the kubelet and control plane would become a maximum of N-2. ([#120825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120825), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))...

- Kubeadm:  'kubeadm alpha kubelet config download' has been removed, please use 'kubeadm upgrade node phase kubelet-config' instead ([#87944](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87944), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle]

- Apimachinery/clock: This deletes the apimachinery/clock package. Please use k8s.io/utils/clock instead. ([#109752](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109752), [@MadhavJivrajani](https://github.com/MadhavJivrajani)) [SIG API Machinery]

  - Please adapt your tooling built on top of kubeadm to use the "node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane" label.
  - The taint applied to control-plane nodes "node-role.kubernetes.io/master:NoSchedule" is now deprecated and will be removed in a future release after a GA deprecation period.

## Downloads for v1.9.1


filename | sha256 hash
-------- | -----------
[kubernetes.tar.gz](https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.9.1/kubernetes.tar.gz) | `0eece0e6c1f68535ea71b58b87e239019bb57fdd61118f3d7defa6bbf4fad5ee`

.io/control-plane:NoSchedule" will be added to control plane nodes. In release 1.20 ("first stage"), a release note instructed to preemptively tolerate the new taint. For clusters that are being upgraded to 1.24 with "kubeadm upgrade apply", the command will add the new taint "node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane:NoSchedule" to existing control plane nodes. Please adapt your infrastructure to these changes. In 1.25 the old taint "node-role.kubernetes.io/master:NoSchedule" will be removed. ([#10...

* Add network stats for Windows nodes and pods. ([#70121](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70121), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

### Feature

- Add flag --lease-max-object-size and metric etcd_lease_object_counts for kube-apiserver to config and observe max objects attached to a single etcd lease. ([#97480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97480), [@lingsamuel](https://github.com/lingsamuel)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Scalability]

    * See https://istio.io/news/releases/0.x/announcing-0.6/ for full Isto release notes.
* Phase `kubeadm alpha phase kubelet` is added to support dynamic kubelet configuration in kubeadm. ([#57224](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57224), [@xiangpengzhao](https://github.com/xiangpengzhao))