release is the work on moving internal APIs that the vSphere provider depends upon to staging to guarantee API stability. This work is being done in conjunction with SIG Cloud Provider and includes the creation of a brand new vsphere-csi plugin to replace the current volume functionalities in-tree.

Additional work was also done to implement a vSphere provider for the Cluster API effort lead by SIG Cluster Lifecycle. For the out-of-tree vSphere cloud provider, the SIG largely focused on...