- 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]

- AzureFile and CephFS use the new Mount library that prevents logging of sensitive mount options. ([#88684](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88684), [@saad-ali](https://github.com/saad-ali)) [SIG Storage]

    *   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

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

    * 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))

- 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))

 - [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]

### 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.