* 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))

- Fix 1.28.0 regression where adding aggregated APIService objects...

- Resolves issue with `/readyz` and `/livez` not including etcd and kms health checks ([#82713](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82713), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))
- Fixes regression in logging spurious stack traces when proxied connections are closed by the backend ([#82588](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82588), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

### Serverside Apply - Beta 2

Server-side Apply was promoted to Beta in 1.16, but is now introducing a second Beta in 1.18. This new version will track and manage changes to fields of all new Kubernetes objects, allowing you to know what changed your resources and when.

### Extending Ingress with and replacing a deprecated annotation with IngressClass

* Fixes issue with cleaning up stale NFS subpath mounts ([#71804](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71804), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))
* Fix device mountable volume names in DSW to prevent races in device mountable plugin, e.g. local. ([#71509](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71509), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

- Fix a bug in cronjob controller where already created jobs...

* DaemonSet, Deployment, ReplicaSet, and StatefulSet objects are now persisted in etcd in apps/v1 format ([#58854](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58854), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* YAMLDecoder Read now tracks rest of buffer on io.ErrShortBuffer ([#58817](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58817), [@karlhungus](https://github.com/karlhungus))

* fix azure file plugin failure issue on Windows after node restart ([#60625](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60625), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixes the races around devicemanager Allocate() and endpoint deletion. ([#60856](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60856), [@jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))



# v1.9.6

- Registered metric `apiserver_request_body_size_bytes` to track the size distribution of requests by `resource` and `verb`. ([#120474](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120474),...

- A new kubelet metric `image_pull_duration_seconds` was added. The metric tracks the duration (in seconds) it takes for an image to be pulled, including the time spent in the waiting queue of image puller. The metric is broken down by bucketed image size. ([#121719](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121719), [@rui...