- Windows CSI Support: Enabling containerized CSI node plugins in Windows via new [CSIProxy](https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-proxy)
- Recursive Volume Ownership OnRootMismatch Option: Add a new “OnRootMismatch” policy that can help shorten the mount time for volumes that require ownership change and have many directories and files.

### Other notable announcements

### SIG-vmware

SIG-VMware development was primarily focused on fixing bugs for the in-tree cloud provider, starting the development of the external cloud provider and taking ownership of the cluster-api provider for vSphere.

In-tree cloud provider bug fixes and improvements included:
- Adding initial Zones support to the provider using vSphere Tags

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Fixes the flooding warning messages about setting volume ownership for configmap/secret volumes ([#92878](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92878), [@jvanz](https://github.com/jvanz)) [SIG Instrumentation, Node and Storage]

Removed fields which have no other owners are deleted from the live object, or reset to their default value if they have one. Safe ownership transfers, such as the transfer of a `replicas` field from a user to an HPA without resetting to the default value are documented in [Transferring Ownership](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/using-api/api-concepts/#transferring-ownership) ([#92661](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92661), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz)) [SIG API Machinery, CLI,...

    - [Generic Ephemeral Volume feature graduates to GA](#generic-ephemeral-volume-feature-graduates-to-ga)
    - [Skip Volume Ownership change graduates to GA](#skip-volume-ownership-change-graduates-to-ga)
    - [Allow CSI drivers to opt-in to volume ownership and permission change graduates to GA](#allow-csi-drivers-to-opt-in-to-volume-ownership-and-permission-change-graduates-to-ga)
    - [PodSecurity graduates to Beta](#podsecurity-graduates-to-beta)

### Server-side Apply graduates to GA

- Server-side apply will now use the openapi provided in the CRD validation field to help figure out how to correctly merge objects and update ownership. ([#77354](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77354), [@jennybuckley](https://github.com/jennybuckley))

- Changed ownership semantics of PersistentVolume's spec.claimRef from `atomic` to `granular`. ([#110495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110495), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski))

### Deployment

- Fixed the occasional double-counting of the `job_finished_total` metric. ([#112948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112948), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))