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The external cloud provider was established and reached feature parity with in-tree, and we expect to stabilize it and have it as preferred deployment model by 1.13. We are also getting started on externalizing the vSphere volume functionalities in a CSI plugin to fully reproduce the current in-tree storage functionality.

## Known Issues

* If you need to downgrade from 1.10 to 1.9.x, downgrade to v1.9.6 to ensure PV and PVC objects can be deleted properly.

- Performance improvements in `klog` ([#115277](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115277), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))
- Pod template `schedulingGates` are now mutable for Jobs that are suspended and have never been started ([#115940](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115940), [@ahg-g](https://github.com/ahg-g)) [SIG Apps]

PodDisruptionBudget handling of "strategic merge patch"-type API requests for the `selector` field. Prior to 1.21, these requests would merge `matchLabels` content and replace `matchExpressions` content. In 1.21, patch requests touching the `selector` field started replacing the entire selector. This is consistent with server-side apply and the v1 PodDisruptionBudget behavior, but should not have been changed for v1beta1. ([#108142](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108142), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))...

* Ensure cloudprovider.InstanceNotFound is reported when the VM is not found on Azure ([#61531](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61531), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* On AWS kubelet returns an error when started under conditions that do not allow it to work (AWS has not yet tagged the instance). ([#60125](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60125), [@vainu-arto](https://github.com/vainu-arto))

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