Features for this release were tracked via the use of the [kubernetes/features](https://github.com/kubernetes/features) issues repo. Each Feature issue is owned by a Special Interest Group from [kubernetes/community](https://github.com/kubernetes/community)

## Kubefed

## Features

This is the first release tracked via the use of the [kubernetes/features](https://github.com/kubernetes/features) issues repo.  Each Feature issue is owned by a Special Interest Group from [kubernetes/community](https://github.com/kubernetes/community)

- **API Machinery**

## Major themes

Kubernetes is developed by community members whose work is organized into
[Special Interest Groups](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-list.md), which provide the themes that guide their work. For the 1.9 release, these themes included:

### API Machinery

### SIG Big Data

During the 1.13 release cycle, SIG Big Data has been focused on community engagements relating to 3rd-party project integrations with Kubernetes. There have been no impacts on the 1.13 release.

### SIG CLI

### Production images moved to community control

As of Kuberenetes v1.19, Kubernetes container images are stored on a community-controlled storage bucket, 
located at `{asia,eu,us}.gcr.io/k8s-artifacts-prod`. The `k8s.gcr.io` vanity domain has been updated 
to this new bucket. This brings production artifacts under community control.

### KubeSchedulerConfiguration graduates to Beta

### Dockershim deprecation

Docker as an underlying runtime is being deprecated. Docker-produced images will continue to work in your cluster with all runtimes, as they always have.
The Kubernetes community [has written a blog post about this in detail](https://blog.k8s.io/2020/12/02/dont-panic-kubernetes-and-docker/) with [a dedicated FAQ page for it](https://blog.k8s.io/2020/12/02/dockershim-faq/).

- New conformance tests added for API Aggregation. ([#63947](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63947), [@jennybuckley](https://github.com/jennybuckley))
- Moved fluentd-elasticsearch addon images to community controlled location ([#73819](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73819), [@coffeepac](https://github.com/coffeepac))

                            Preamble

  The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for
software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure
cooperation with the community in the case of network server software.

  The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed
to take away your freedom to share and change the works.  By contrast,

  <mime-type type="application/marc">
    <!-- todo add marc xml <marc:collection> -->
    <glob pattern="*.mrc"/>
    <magic priority="50">
      <!-- built from, e.g. https://www.loc.gov/marc/community/cileader.html -->
      <match value="[0-9]{5,5}" type="regex" offset="0">
        <match value="45" type="string" offset="20">
          <!-- bibliographic -->

#### Extensibility

- The community has been asking for continuing support of extensibility, so this cycle features more work around CRDs and API Machinery. Most of the enhancements in this cycle were from SIG API Machinery and related areas.