*   Dynamic provisioning is not supported with this feature yet.
*   [alpha] Containerized mount utilities
    *   Allow mount utilities, used to mount volumes, to run inside a container instead of on the host.
*   Bug Fixes

- Fix: azure file mount timeout issue ([#88610](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88610), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fix: corrupted mount point in csi driver ([#88569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88569), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage]

- Fixes a regression in 1.34 release candidates where object storage count metrics could include all instances of all types instead of only the object count for a particular type ([#133604](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133604), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery and Etcd]

## Dependencies

    * waiting for the request to be satisfied. It will continually refresh the certificate

  * Create clusters with GPUs in GCE by specifying `type=<gpu-type>,count=<gpu-count>` to NODE_ACCELERATORS environment variable. ([#45130](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45130), [@vishh](https://github.com/vishh))

* Fixes spurious 0-length API responses. ([#72856](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72856), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fixed scanning of failed iSCSI targets. ([#74306](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74306), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))
- StorageOS volume plugin updated to fix an issue where volume mount succeeds even if request to mount via StorageOS API fails. ([#69782](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69782), [@darkowlzz](https://github.com/darkowlzz))

### Non-recursive Volume Ownership (FSGroup) graduates to Beta

By default, the `fsgroup` setting, if specified, recursively updates permissions for every file in a volume on every mount. This can make mount, and pod startup, very slow if the volume has many files. 

implementation is changed to not return an error when the specified target can be detected as not a mount point. On Linux, the behavior of detecting a mount point depends on `umount` command is validated when the mounter is created. Additionally, mount point checks will be skipped in CleanupMountPoint/CleanupMountWithForce if the mounter's Unmount having the changed behavior of not returning error when target is not a mount point. ([#109676](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109676), [@cartermckin...

#### Storage

* [stable] Mount options

  * The ability to specify mount options for volumes is moved from beta to stable.

  * A new `MountOptions` field in the `PersistentVolume` spec is available to specify mount options. This field replaces an annotation.

  * A new `MountOptions` field in the `StorageClass` spec allows configuration of mount options for dynamically provisioned volumes.

 - [Action Required] CSI drivers that call IsLikelyNotMountPoint should not assume false means that the path is a mount point. Each CSI driver needs to make sure correct usage of return value of IsLikelyNotMountPoint because if the file is an irregular file but not a mount point is acceptable ([#129370](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129370), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage and Windows]