- [`KT-58916`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-58916) [1.9.0-Beta] PLUGIN_CLASSPATH_CONFIGURATION_NAME and NATIVE_COMPILER_PLUGIN_CLASSPATH_CONFIGURATION_NAME should stay public or offer an alternative API
- [`KT-58869`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-58869) K2, Gradle: Improve message "100% (2/2) tasks have compiled with Kotlin 2"

#### Continuous Improvement
- Project sustainability is not just about features. Many SIGs have been working on  improving test coverage, ensuring the basics stay reliable, and stability of the core feature set and working on maturing existing features and cleaning up the backlog.

#### Extensibility

  * Advanced scheduling can be performed with [taints and tolerations](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/assign-pod-node/#taints-and-tolerations-beta-feature)
* You can now specify (per pod) how long a pod should stay bound to a node, when there is a node problem.
* Various storage features have graduated to GA:
  * StorageClass pre-installed and set as default on Azure, AWS, GCE, OpenStack, and vSphere

  // +optional
  optional bool tty = 18;
}

// Represents an ephemeral volume that is handled by a normal storage driver.
message EphemeralVolumeSource {
  // Will be used to create a stand-alone PVC to provision the volume.
  // The pod in which this EphemeralVolumeSource is embedded will be the
  // owner of the PVC, i.e. the PVC will be deleted together with the

* AWS: Batch DescribeInstance calls with nodeNames to 150 limit, to stay within AWS filter limits. ([#47516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47516), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

	* Start recording cloud provider metrics for AWS ([#43477](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43477), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

	* AWS: Batch DescribeInstance calls with nodeNames to 150 limit, to stay within AWS filter limits. ([#47516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47516), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))