- Introduced a new metric `kubelet_admission_rejections_total` to track the number of pods rejected during admission. ([#128556](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128556), [@AnishShah](https://github.com/AnishShah))

- Moved the `ImagePullIntent` and `ImagePulledRecord` objects used by the kubelet to track image pulls to the `v1beta1` API version. ([#132579](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132579), [@stlaz](https://github.com/stlaz)) [SIG Auth and Node]

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* Move private key parsing from serviceaccount/jwt.go to client-go/util/cert ([#40907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40907), [@cblecker](https://github.com/cblecker))
* Caching added to the OIDC client auth plugin to fix races and reduce the time kubectl commands using this plugin take by several seconds. ([#38167](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38167), [@ericchiang](https://github.com/ericchiang))

- Fixes regression in logging spurious stack traces when proxied connections are closed by the backend ([#82588](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82588), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* Fix device mountable volume names in DSW to prevent races in device mountable plugin, e.g. local. ([#71509](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71509), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

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* 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