merged in before and after the first public release.

# Feature Freeze

One week before a release, the release branch goes into a state of code freeze. At this point only critical release
blocking bugs are addressed. Additional changes that are targeted for new features and capabilities will not be merged.

## Features requiring API changes

If a PR change requires an API change

		cp(wd+k8sSvcAcctSubDir+f, tempK8sSvcAcctDir+"/"+f, t)
	}
	t.Logf("Finished pre-populating working dirs")
}

// create an install server instance and run it, blocking until it gets terminated
// via context cancellation
func startInstallServer(ctx context.Context, serverConfig *config.Config, t *testing.T) {
	readyFlag := &atomic.Value{}

#### CRD Watcher

For watches against custom types (CRDs), we want to gracefully handle missing CRDs. Naively starting informers against the missing types would result in errors and blocking startup. Instead, we introduce a "CRD Watcher" component that watches the CRDs in the cluster to determine if they are available or not.

This is consumed in two ways: