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## Urgent Upgrade Notes 

### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

- Bind metadata-agent containers to linux nodes to avoid Windows scheduling on kubernetes cluster includes linux nodes and windows nodes ([#83363](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83363), [@wawa0210](https://github.com/wawa0210)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation and Windows]

    *   Nodes can now belong to multiple security groups

### **Scheduling**

#### **Hardware Accelerators**

- TaintNodeByCondition has been moved to Beta and is enabled by default.
- Scheduler throughput has been improved by ~50% in large clusters (>2000 nodes).

### SIG-service-catalog

    * or grant self-deletion permission explicitly:
        * `kubectl create clusterrole self-deleting-nodes --verb=delete --resource=nodes`
        * `kubectl create clusterrolebinding self-deleting-nodes --clusterrole=self-deleting-nodes --group=system:nodes`

    * `kubectl delete node/<nodeName>`
    * or grant self-deletion permission explicitly:
        * `kubectl create clusterrole self-deleting-nodes --verb=delete --resource=nodes`
        * `kubectl create clusterrolebinding self-deleting-nodes --clusterrole=self-deleting-nodes --group=system:nodes`

## Urgent Upgrade Notes
### (No, really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)
#### Cluster Lifecycle
- Kubeadm: add a new `kubelet-finalize` phase as part of the `init` workflow and an experimental sub-phase to enable automatic kubelet client certificate rotation on primary control-plane nodes.

## Changelog since v1.10.9

### Other notable changes

* Do not remove shutdown nodes from api-server for vSphere. ([#70291](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70291), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
    * Fixes volume detach from shutdown nodes.