- [(No, really, you MUST do this before you upgrade)](#no-really-you-must-do-this-before-you-upgrade)
  - [Known Issues](#known-issues)
  - [Deprecations](#deprecations)
  - [Major Themes](#major-themes)
    - [SIG API Machinery](#sig-api-machinery)
    - [SIG Auth](#sig-auth)
    - [SIG AWS](#sig-aws)
    - [SIG Azure](#sig-azure)
    - [SIG Big Data](#sig-big-data)
    - [SIG CLI](#sig-cli)

pod priority and pod preemption. These features allow mixing various types of workloads in a single cluster, and help reach
higher levels of resource utilization and availability.
These features are in alpha. SIG Scheduling also improved the internal APIs for scheduling and made them easier for other components and external schedulers to use.

## Major themes

Kubernetes is developed by community members whose work is organized into
[Special Interest Groups](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md), which provide the themes that guide their work. For the 1.9 release, these themes included:

### API Machinery

    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-17)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-17)
    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-17)
  - [Changelog since v1.21.0](#changelog-since-v1210)
  - [What's New (Major Themes)](#whats-new-major-themes)
    - [Removal of several beta Kubernetes APIs](#removal-of-several-beta-kubernetes-apis)
    - [Kubernetes release cadence change](#kubernetes-release-cadence-change)

    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-19)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-19)
    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-19)
  - [Changelog since v1.17.0](#changelog-since-v1170)
  - [What’s New (Major Themes)](#whats-new-major-themes)
    - [Kubernetes Topology Manager Moves to Beta - Align Up!](#kubernetes-topology-manager-moves-to-beta---align-up)
    - [Serverside Apply - Beta 2](#serverside-apply---beta-2)

* kubeadm now attempts to detect an installed CRI by its usual domain socket, so that --cri-socket can be omitted from the command line if Docker is not used and there is a single CRI installed. ([#69366](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69366),...

    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-17)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-17)
    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-17)
- [Changes](#changes)
  - [What’s New (Major Themes)](#whats-new-major-themes)
    - [Cloud Provider Labels reach General Availability](#cloud-provider-labels-reach-general-availability)
    - [Volume Snapshot Moves to Beta](#volume-snapshot-moves-to-beta)

encryption configuration file watch logic from using inotify watch to polling at an interval of every minute. Moved the logic to polling because there are variations on file changes (like symlink swapping of directories that contain the encryption config) that the file watch logic would fail to detect. Polling at a set interval prevents any such issues. Note that there is no guarantee on how quickly the API server will process the encryption config. The `apiserver_encryption_config_controller_automatic_...

    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-15)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-15)
    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-15)
  - [Changelog since v1.19.0](#changelog-since-v1190)
  - [What's New (Major Themes)](#whats-new-major-themes)
    - [Dockershim deprecation](#dockershim-deprecation)
    - [External credential provider for client-go](#external-credential-provider-for-client-go)

- [v1.7.0](#v170)
  - [Downloads for v1.7.0](#downloads-for-v170)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-16)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-16)
    - [Node Binaries](#node-binaries-16)
  - [**Major Themes**](#major-themes)
  - [**Action Required Before Upgrading**](#action-required-before-upgrading)
    - [Network](#network)
    - [Storage](#storage)
    - [API Machinery](#api-machinery)