Protection. The Storage Protection feature is beta. ([#59052](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59052), [@pospispa](https://github.com/pospispa))

* iSCSI sessions managed by kubernetes will now explicitly set startup.mode to 'manual' to  prevent automatic login after node failure recovery. This is the default open-iscsi mode, so this change will only impact users who have changed their startup.mode to be 'automatic' in /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf. ([#57475](https://github.com/kub...

### AWS

In v1.9 SIG AWS has improved stability of EBS support across the board. If a Volume is “stuck” in the attaching state to a node for too long a unschedulable taint will be applied to the node, so a Kubernetes admin can [take manual steps to correct the error](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-attaching-volume.html). Users are encouraged to ensure they are monitoring for the taint, and should consider automatically terminating instances in this state.

    - [Feature](#feature-8)
    - [Design](#design-1)
    - [Other (Bug, Cleanup or Flake)](#other-bug-cleanup-or-flake-5)
- [v1.18.0-alpha.4](#v1180-alpha4)
  - [Important note about manual tag](#important-note-about-manual-tag)
- [v1.18.0-alpha.3](#v1180-alpha3)
  - [Downloads for v1.18.0-alpha.3](#downloads-for-v1180-alpha3)
    - [Client Binaries](#client-binaries-24)
    - [Server Binaries](#server-binaries-24)

- github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go: [v55.0.0+incompatible → v68.0.0+incompatible](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/compare/v55.0.0...v68.0.0)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal: [v0.9.20 → v0.9.23](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal/compare/v0.9.20...v0.9.23)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/validation: [v0.1.0 → v0.3.1](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/validation/compare/v0.1.0...v0.3.1)

* Implements rolling update for StatefulSets. Updates can be performed using the RollingUpdate, Paritioned, or OnDelete strategies. OnDelete implements the manual behavior from 1.6. status now tracks  ([#46669](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46669), [@kow3ns](https://github.com/kow3ns))

- `kubeadm reset` now outputs instructions about manual iptables rules cleanup. ([#70874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70874), [@rdodev](https://github.com/rdodev))

- cloud.google.com/go/pubsub: v1.0.1 → v1.2.0
- cloud.google.com/go/storage: v1.0.0 → v1.6.0
- cloud.google.com/go: v0.51.0 → v0.54.0
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal: [v0.8.2 → v0.9.5](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/compare/autorest/adal/v0.8.2...autorest/adal/v0.9.5)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/date: [v0.2.0 → v0.3.0](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/compare/autorest/date/v0.2.0...autorest/date/v0.3.0)

- github.com/Azure/go-ansiterm: [d6e3b33 → d185dfc](https://github.com/Azure/go-ansiterm/compare/d6e3b33...d185dfc)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal: [v0.9.5 → v0.9.13](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal/compare/v0.9.5...v0.9.13)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/to: [v0.2.0 → v0.4.0](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/to/compare/v0.2.0...v0.4.0)

### Changed
- bitbucket.org/bertimus9/systemstat: 0eeff89 → v0.5.0
- cloud.google.com/go: v0.81.0 → v0.97.0
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal: [v0.9.13 → v0.9.20](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal/compare/v0.9.13...v0.9.20)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/mocks: [v0.4.1 → v0.4.2](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/mocks/compare/v0.4.1...v0.4.2)

- github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go: [v35.0.0+incompatible → v43.0.0+incompatible](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/compare/v35.0.0...v43.0.0)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal: [v0.5.0 → v0.8.2](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal/compare/v0.5.0...v0.8.2)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/date: [v0.1.0 → v0.2.0](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/date/compare/v0.1.0...v0.2.0)