- For GCE cluster provider, fix bug of not being able to create internal type load balancer for clusters with more than 1000 nodes in a single zone. ([#89902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89902), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Network and Scalability]

- go.uber.org/atomic: v1.10.0 → v1.7.0
- go.uber.org/goleak: v1.2.1 → v1.3.0
- go.uber.org/zap: v1.19.0 → v1.26.0
- golang.org/x/crypto: v0.14.0 → v0.21.0
- golang.org/x/mod: v0.12.0 → v0.15.0
- golang.org/x/net: v0.17.0 → v0.23.0
- golang.org/x/sync: v0.3.0 → v0.6.0
- golang.org/x/sys: v0.13.0 → v0.18.0
- golang.org/x/term: v0.13.0 → v0.18.0
- golang.org/x/text: v0.13.0 → v0.14.0

- golang.org/x/net: v0.23.0 → v0.26.0
- golang.org/x/oauth2: v0.10.0 → v0.21.0
- golang.org/x/sync: v0.6.0 → v0.7.0
- golang.org/x/sys: v0.18.0 → v0.21.0
- golang.org/x/telemetry: b75ee88 → f48c80b
- golang.org/x/term: v0.18.0 → v0.21.0
- golang.org/x/text: v0.14.0 → v0.16.0
- golang.org/x/tools: v0.18.0 → e35e4cc
- google.golang.org/api: v0.126.0 → v0.13.0

* Fix a regression that prevented using `subPath` volume mounts with secret, configMap, projected, and downwardAPI volumes ([#61080](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61080), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))



# v1.9.4

[Documentation](https://docs.k8s.io) & [Examples](https://releases.k8s.io/release-1.9/examples)

## Downloads for v1.9.4

- github.com/go-openapi/swag: [v0.17.2 → v0.19.2](https://github.com/go-openapi/swag/compare/v0.17.2...v0.19.2)
- github.com/go-openapi/validate: [v0.18.0 → v0.19.2](https://github.com/go-openapi/validate/compare/v0.18.0...v0.19.2)
- github.com/godbus/dbus: [c7fdd8b → v4.1.0+incompatible](https://github.com/godbus/dbus/compare/c7fdd8b...v4.1.0)

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- Kube-apiserver: gzip compression switched from level 4 to level 1 to improve large list call latencies in exchange for higher network bandwidth usage (10-50% higher). This increases the headroom before very large unpaged list calls exceed request timeout limits. ([#112400](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112400), [@shyamjvs](https://github.com/shyamjvs)) [SIG API Machinery]

    *   Added new op: `tf.strings.unsorted_segment_join`.
    *   Added HW acceleration support for `topK_v2`.
    *   CloudBigtable version updated to v0.10.0 BEGIN_PUBLIC CloudBigtable
        version updated to v0.10.0.
    *   Expose `Head` as public API.
    *   Added `tf.sparse.from_dense` utility function.
    *   Improved ragged tensor support in `TensorFlowTestCase`.