## Changelog since v1.9.8

### Action Required

    * action required: Cloud providers other than GCE might want to update their deployments or sample yaml files to reuse the role created via add-on.

### Other notable changes

* Kubernetes json deserializer is now case-sensitive to restore compatibility with pre-1.8 servers. ([#65157](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65157), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

- Fixed a bug in the TopologyManager. Previously, the TopologyManager would only guarantee alignment if container creation was serialized in some way. Alignment is now guaranteed under all scenarios of container creation. ([#87759](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87759), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska)) [SIG Node]

## Changelog since v1.8.14

### Action Required

* Fixed API server panic during concurrent GET or LIST requests with non-empty `resourceVersion`. ([#65092](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65092), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* Kubernetes json deserializer is now case-sensitive to restore compatibility with pre-1.8 servers. ([#65034](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65034), [@caesarxuchao](https://github.com/caesarxuchao))

- Fixed a bug in the TopologyManager. Previously, the TopologyManager would only guarantee alignment if container creation was serialized in some way. Alignment is now guaranteed under all scenarios of container creation. ([#87759](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87759), [@klueska](https://github.com/klueska)) [SIG Node]

- The cloud config for Azure cloud provider can now be initialized from Kubernetes secret azure-cloud-provider in kube-system namespace
    - the secret is a serialized version of `azure.json` file with key cloud-config. And the secret name is azure-cloud-provider.

* if kube-apiserver is started with `--storage-backend=etcd2`, the media type `application/json` is used. ([#43122](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43122), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))
* API fields that previously serialized null arrays as `null` and empty arrays as `[]` no longer distinguish between those values and always output `[]` when serializing to JSON. ([#43422](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43422), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

        * Scale subresource now has a new <code>targetSelector</code> field in its status. This field supports the new set-based selectors supported
by Deployments, but in a serialized format.
     * Spec change:
        * Deployment’s [selector](http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/labels/#label-selectors) is now more general (supports set-based selector; it only supported
equality-based selector in 1.1).

- `kubeadm`: improved the logic that checks whether a `systemd` service exists. ([#120514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120514), [@fengxsong](https://github.com/fengxsong))
- `kubeadm`: will now use universal deserializer to decode static pod. ([#120549](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120549), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- `kubectl prune v2`: Switched annotation from `contains-group-resources` to `contains-group-kinds`,