## Changelog since v1.9.4

### Other notable changes

* gce: fixes race condition in ServiceController, where nodes weren't updated in the node sync loop, by updating TargetPools in the ensureExternalLoadBalancer call. ([#58368](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58368), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))

- Fixed a performance issue where pods weren't created/deleted in parallel for a StatefulSet with podManagementPolicy: Parallel. ([#119096](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119096), [@aleksandra-malinowska](https://github.com/aleksandra-malinowska)) [SIG Apps]

* update gophercloud/gophercloud dependency for reauthentication fixes ([#45545](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45545), [@stuart-warren](https://github.com/stuart-warren))
* fix sync loop health check with separating runtime errors ([#47124](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47124), [@andyxning](https://github.com/andyxning))

- Fixed issue where `kubectl-convert` would fail when encountering resources that could not be converted to the specified api version. New behavior is to warn the user of the failed conversions and continue to convert the remaining resources. ([#117002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117002), [@gxwilkerson33](https://github.com/gxwilkerson33))

- Kubeadm: warn but do not error out on missing "ca.key" files for root CA, front-proxy CA and etcd CA, during "kubeadm join --control-plane" if the user has provided all certificates, keys and kubeconfig files which require signing with the given CA keys. ([#949...

- Gracefully delete nodes when their parent scale set went missing ([#95289](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95289), [@bpineau](https://github.com/bpineau)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

  - true/strict - perform validation and error the request on any invalid fields in the ojbect. It will attempt to perform server-side validation if it is enabled on the apiserver, otherwise it will fall back to client-side validation.

- Volume binding: report UnschedulableAndUnresolvable status instead of an error when bound PVs not found ([#95541](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95541), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc)) [SIG Apps, Scheduling and Storage]
- Warn instead of fail when creating Roles and ClusterRoles with custom verbs via kubectl ([#92492](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92492), [@eddiezane](https://github.com/eddiezane)) [SIG CLI]

- Kubeadm: warn but do not error out on missing "ca.key" files for root CA, front-proxy CA and etcd CA, during "kubeadm join --control-plane" if the user has provided all certificates, keys and kubeconfig files which require signing with the given CA keys. ([#949...

- Performs strict server side schema validation requests via the `fieldValidation=[Strict,Warn,Ignore]`. ([#105916](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105916), [@kevindelgado](https://github.com/kevindelgado))
- Promote `IPv6DualStack` feature to stable.