- **Volume Extension**: There are quite a few enhancements in this release that pertain to volumes and volume modifications. Volume resizing support in CSI specs is moving to beta which allows for any CSI spec volume plugin to be resizable.

* etcd3: avoid unnecessary decoding in etcd3 client  ([#34435](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34435), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* etcd3: fix suite ([#32477](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32477), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))



# v1.4.4

- Text logging in Kubernetes components now...

capability to beta, allowing users to use the familiar `kubeadm init` and `kubeadm join` commands to [configure and deploy an HA control plane](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/tools/kubeadm/high-availability/). An entire new test suite has been created specifically for ensuring these features will stay stable over time.

Certificate management has become more robust in 1.15, with kubeadm now seamlessly rotating all your certificates (on upgrades) before they expire. Check...

* Remove the deprecated vsphere kube-up. ([#39140](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39140), [@kerneltime](https://github.com/kerneltime))

### kubeadm

* Third Party Resource tests in the e2e suite were incorrectly marked as part of the conformance bucket.  They are alpha and are not required for conformance. ([#52823](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52823), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))

    * sync time.
 
    * The goal is for administrators to be able to alert on proxies that, for
    * whatever reason, are quite stale.
* Fix a string comparison bug in IPVS graceful termination where UDP real servers are not deleted. ([#78999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78999), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))