- NFS Drivers are now enabled to collect metrics, StatFS metrics provider is used to collect the metrics. (@brahmaroutu) ([#75805](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75805), [@brahmaroutu](https://github.com/brahmaroutu))

- Kubeadm: perform pre-flight validation on host/node name upon `kubeadm init` and `kubeadm join`,...

* Fix photon controller plugin to construct with correct PdID ([#37167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37167), [@luomiao](https://github.com/luomiao))
* Collect logs for dead kubelets too ([#37671](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37671), [@mtaufen](https://github.com/mtaufen))

- APIServerTracing now collects spans from etcd client calls, and propagates context to etcd. ([#103216](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103216), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole)) [SIG API Machinery, Cloud Provider and Instrumentation]

#### Garbage Collector
* The garbage collector now supports custom APIs added via Custom Resource Definitions
  or aggregated API servers. The garbage collector controller refreshes periodically.
  Therefore, expect a latency of about 30 seconds between when an API is added and when
  the garbage collector starts to manage it.


#### Monitoring/Prometheus

* fluentd-gcp addon: Fix a bug in the event-exporter, when repeated events were not sent to Stackdriver. ([#50511](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50511), [@crassirostris](https://github.com/crassirostris))
* Collect metrics from Heapster in Stackdriver mode. ([#50517](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50517), [@piosz](https://github.com/piosz))

* This fix prevents a GCE PD volume from being mounted if the udev device link is stale and tries to correct the link. ([#66832](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66832), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))

- [`KT-59062`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-59062) WASM: Report errors when calling WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming in tests
- [`KTIJ-25207`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTIJ-25207) Collect stats about Kotlin/Wasm usage


## 1.9.0

### Analysis API

#### New Features

* kube-apiserver: the OpenID Connect authenticator can now verify ID Tokens signed with JOSE algorithms other than RS256 through the --oidc-signing-algs flag. ([#58544](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58544), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

  `storage_count_attachable_volumes_in_use`
  `attachdetach_controller_total_volumes`
  `pv_collector_bound_pv_count`
  `pv_collector_unbound_pv_count`
  `pv_collector_bound_pvc_count`
  `pv_collector_unbound_pvc_count`
  ([#84896](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84896), [@RainbowMango](https://github.com/RainbowMango))