volume availability, the API now enables volume resizing and snapshotting. These features are in alpha.
The SIG also focused on providing more control over storage: the ability to set requests and
limits on ephemeral storage, the ability to specify mount options, more metrics, and improvements to Flex driver deployments.

[SIG Storage]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-storage

## Before Upgrading

- Kubeadm: if the user has customized...

- Fix computing backoff delay when using Job pod failure policy, by including in the backoff delay calculation pod failures ignored from the backoffLimit counter.
  
  Also, compute the backoff delay more accurately for deleted pods. ([#119466](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119466), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo)) [SIG Apps]

  Depending on the value returned from QueueingHintFn, the scheduling queue changes how it queues each Pod:
  - if more than one QueueingHintFn returns QueueImmediately, it queues Pod to activeQ.
  - If no QueueingHintFn returns QueueImmediately and more than one plugin returns QueueAfterBackoff, it queues Pod to backoffQ if Pod is backing off, or to activeQ if Pod's backoff has already finished.

See [this doc](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-storage/volume-plugin-faq.md#kubernetes-volume-plugin-faq-for-storage-vendors) for more information.
Maintainers of FlexVolume drivers should implement a CSI driver and move users of FlexVolume to CSI.
Users of FlexVolume should move their workloads to CSI driver.

### Deprecation of klog specific flags

    - [Container Storage Interface graduations](#container-storage-interface-graduations)
    - [SIG Windows development tools](#sig-windows-development-tools)
    - [Deploy a more secure control plane with kubeadm](#deploy-a-more-secure-control-plane-with-kubeadm)
    - [etcd moves to version 3.5.0](#etcd-moves-to-version-350)
    - [Kubernetes Node system swap support](#kubernetes-node-system-swap-support)

### Support for cgroups v2 Graduates to Stable

## Changelog since v1.24.10

## Changes by Kind

### Feature

- Kubelet TCP and HTTP probes are more effective using networking resources: conntrack entries, sockets, ... 

  new callbacks for more granularity. Deprecated the `OnPodDeletedOrEvicted`
  node drain helper callback. ([#117502](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117502), [@adilGhaffarDev](https://github.com/adilGhaffarDev))

- Admission control plugin "DefaultStorageClass": If more than one StorageClass is designated as default (via the "storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class" annotation), choose the newest one instead of...