In v1.9 SIG AWS has improved stability of EBS support across the board. If a Volume is “stuck” in the attaching state to a node for too long a unschedulable taint will be applied to the node, so a Kubernetes admin can [take manual steps to correct the error](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-attaching-volume.html). Users are encouraged to ensure they are monitoring for the taint, and should consider automatically terminating instances in this state.

The `wait.NewExponentialBackoffManager` and `wait.NewJitteringBackoffManager` functions have been marked as deprecated.  Callers should switch to using the `Backoff{...}.DelayWithReset(clock, resetInterval)` method and must set the `Steps` field when using `Factor`. As a short term change, callers may use the `Timer()` method on the `BackoffManager` until the backoff managers are deprecated and removed. Please see the godoc of the deprecated functions for examples of how to replace...

- [migration phase 1] PodMatchNodeSelector/NodAffinity as filter plugin ([#83660](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83660), [@wgliang](https://github.com/wgliang))
- Add more tracing steps in generic_scheduler ([#83539](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83539), [@wgliang](https://github.com/wgliang))

- Kube-controller-manager: the dynamic resource controller steps in when a pod got created such that the scheduler ignores it (i.e. spec.nodeName is set) and then takes care of triggering delayed resource claim allocation and/or reserving a claim for the pod. ([#118209](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118209),...

* Corrected a mistake in the documentation for wait.PollImmediate(...) ([#65026](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65026), [@spew](https://github.com/spew))
* Split 'scheduling_latency_seconds' metric into finer steps (predicate, priority, premption) ([#65306](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65306), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs))

performing the TLS Bootstrap properly. Earlier, `kubeadm join` only did the discovery part and exited successfully without checking that the kubelet actually started properly and performed the TLS bootstrap correctly. Now, as kubeadm runs some post-join steps (for example, annotating the Node API object with the CRISocket), `kubeadm join` is now waiting for the kubelet to perform the TLS Bootstrap, and then uses that credential to perform further actions. This also improves the UX, as `kubeadm` will exit...

* PetSet has been renamed to StatefulSet.
  If you have existing PetSets, **you must perform extra migration steps** both

- Restored `NumPDBViolations` info of nodes, when `HTTPExtender ProcessPreemption`. This info will be used in subsequent filtering steps - `pickOneNodeForPreemption` ([#105853](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105853), [@caden2016](https://github.com/caden2016))

    - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes-9)
- [v1.3.0](#v130)
  - [Downloads](#downloads-9)
  - [Highlights](#highlights)
  - [Known Issues and Important Steps before Upgrading](#known-issues-and-important-steps-before-upgrading)
      - [ThirdPartyResource](#thirdpartyresource)
      - [kubectl](#kubectl)
      - [kubernetes Core Known Issues](#kubernetes-core-known-issues)