#### Application Deployment
* StatefulSetStatus now tracks replicas, readyReplicas, currentReplicas, and updatedReplicas. The semantics of replicas is now consistent with DaemonSet and ReplicaSet, and readyReplicas has the semantics that replicas did prior to 1.7 ([#46669](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46669), [@kow3ns](https://github.com/kow3ns)).

- Introducing new semantic for metric `volume_operation_total_seconds` to be the end to end latency of volume provisioning/deletion. Existing metric "storage_operation_duration_seconds" will remain untouched, however it is exposed to the following potential issues:

	Action Required:
	When upgrading to Kubernetes 1.7 (and a network plugin that supports
	the new NetworkPolicy v1 semantics), to ensure full behavioral
	compatibility with v1beta1:
	1. In Namespaces that previously had the "DefaultDeny" annotation,
	   you can create equivalent v1 semantics by creating a
	   NetworkPolicy that matches all pods but does not allow any
	   traffic:

	   ```yaml

- Improved scheduling performance when many nodes, and prefilter returned 1-2 nodes (e.g. daemonset)
  

## API Changes
- CustomResourceDefinitions now validate documented API semantics of `x-kubernetes-list-type` and `x-kubernetes-map-type` atomic to reject non-atomic sub-types. ([#84722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84722), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Improved scheduling performance when many nodes, and prefilter returns 1-2 nodes (e.g. daemonset)
  

proceeded to schedule pods onto nodes with no devices by not allocating any devices for those pods. Kubernetes 1.33 changes that to only picking nodes which have at least one device. Users who want the "proceed with scheduling also without devices" semantic can use the upcoming prioritized list feature with one sub-request for "all" devices and a second alternative with "count: 0". ([#129560](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129560), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh)) [SIG API Machinery...

### SIG Storage

- The AllowedTopologies field inside StorageClass is now validated against set and map semantics. Specifically, there cannot be duplicate TopologySelectorTerms, MatchLabelExpressions keys, or TopologySelectorLabelRequirement Values. ([#66843](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66843), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

- Changed ownership semantics of PersistentVolume's spec.claimRef from `atomic` to `granular`. ([#110495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110495), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski))

* discovery.CachedDiscoveryInterface implementation returned by NewMemCacheClient has changed semantics of Invalidate method -- the cache refresh is now deferred to the first cache lookup. ([#70994](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70994), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))