- Fixed a bug where a high churn of events was causing master instability by reducing the maximum number of objects (events) attached to a single etcd lease. ([#100084](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100084), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Scalability]

- The CSI volume plugin stopped watching the VolumeAttachment object if the object is not found or the volume is not attached when kubelet waits for a volume attached. In the past, it would fail due to missing permission. ([#126961](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126961), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Storage]

* We change the default attach_detach_controller sync period to 1 minute to reduce the query frequency through cloud provider to check whether volumes are attached or not.  ([#41363](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41363), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

## Changelog since v1.5.2

### Other notable changes

* We change the default attach_detach_controller sync period to 1 minute to reduce the query frequency through cloud provider to check whether volumes are attached or not.  ([#41363](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41363), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

* Updates Cinder AttachDisk operation to be more reliable by delegating Detaches to volume manager. ([#50042](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50042), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

	m.Delete(sessionPolicyNameExtracted)

	nosp := opts.sessionPolicy == nil || opts.sessionPolicy.Version == "" && len(opts.sessionPolicy.Statements) == 0

	// sessionPolicy is nil and there is embedded policy attached we remove
	// embedded policy at that point.
	if _, ok := m.Lookup(policy.SessionPolicyName); ok && nosp {
		m.Delete(policy.SessionPolicyName)
		m.Set(iamPolicyClaimNameSA(), inheritedPolicyType)
	}

Durable Local Storage Management is Now GA ([#121](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/121#issuecomment-457396290))

- Makes locally attached (non-network attached) storage available as a persistent volume source.
- Allows users to take advantage of the typically cheaper and improved performance of persistent local storage

- Fixed attaching volumes after detach errors. Now volumes that failed to detach are not treated as attached, Kubernetes will make sure they are fully attached before they can be used by pods. ([#120595](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120595), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

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            the filename after the version. This allows:
            <ul>
            <li>referring to attached artifact, for example {@code sources} and {@code javadoc}:
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            <li>distinguishing two artifacts

- Add metric etcd_lease_object_counts for kube-apiserver to observe max objects attached to a single etcd lease. ([#97480](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97480), [@lingsamuel](https://github.com/lingsamuel)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Scalability]