#### Other deprecations:
- The k8s.io/node-api component is no longer updated. Instead, use the RuntimeClass types located within k8s.io/api, and the generated clients located within k8s.io/client-go ([#87503](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87503), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Node and Release]

* Kubelet won't evict a static pod with priority `system-node-critical` upon resource pressure. ([#74222](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74222), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
* Re-issue Allocate grpc calls before starting a container that requests device-plugin resources if the cached state is missing. ([#73824](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73824), [@jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))

* Address a bug which allowed the horizontal pod autoscaler to allocate `desiredReplicas` > `maxReplicas` in certain instances. ([#53690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53690), [@mattjmcnaughton](https://github.com/mattjmcnaughton))

* 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

  It specifies if the cluster internal traffic should be routed to all endpoints or node-local endpoints only.
  "Cluster" routes internal traffic to a Service to all endpoints.
  "Local" routes traffic to node-local endpoints only, and traffic is dropped if no node-local endpoints are ready.

inside a container can be seen by the host. (Note that this is [not supported on Windows](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60275).) [Local Ephemeral Storage Capacity Isolation](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/361) makes it possible to set requests and limits on ephemeral local storage resources. In addition, you can now create [Local Persistent Storage](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/121), which enables PersistentVolumes to be created with locally attached...

- Fixed a bug that caused the `apiserver` to panic when trying to allocate a Service with a dynamic `ClusterIP` and was configured with Service CIDRs with a /28 mask for IPv4 and a /124 mask for IPv6 ([#115322](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115322), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

    * "dns" {
    *   "servers": ["10.0.0.10"],
    *   "searches": ["default.svc.cluster.local","svc.cluster.local","cluster.local"],
    *   "options": []
    * }

* fix network setup in hack/local-up-cluster.sh (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60431) ([#60633](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60633), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))
    * better error diagnostics in hack/local-up-cluster.sh output

  for a certain priority level configuration object via the two newly introduced fields `lendablePercent`, and
  `borrowingLimitPercent` located under the `.spec.limited` field of the designated priority level.
  This change added the following metrics:
    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_nominal_limit_seats`: Nominal number of execution seats configured for each priority level