- Fix azure file migration issue ([#97877](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97877), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Auth, Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fix to recover CSI volumes from certain dangling attachments ([#96617](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96617), [@yuga711](https://github.com/yuga711)) [SIG Apps and Storage]

### Generic Ephemeral Volumes

### Container Storage Interface graduations

CSI support for Windows nodes moves to GA in the 1.22 release. In Kubernetes v1.22, Windows privileged containers are only an alpha feature. To allow using CSI storage on Windows nodes, [CSIProxy](https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-proxy) enables CSI node plugins to be deployed as unprivileged pods, using the proxy to perform privileged storage operations on the node.

- Do not log error event when waiting for expansion on the kubelet ([#132099](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132099), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage]

  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information-2)
    - [CVE-2023-5528: Insufficient input sanitization in in-tree storage plugin leads to privilege escalation on Windows nodes](#cve-2023-5528-insufficient-input-sanitization-in-in-tree-storage-plugin-leads-to-privilege-escalation-on-windows-nodes)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-8)
    - [API Change](#api-change-1)
    - [Feature](#feature-7)

- The `WatchFromStorageWithoutResourceVersion` feature was deprecated and can no longer be enabled. ([#129930](https://...

- Changed feature CSIMigrationAWS to on by default. This feature requires the AWS EBS CSI driver to be installed. (#106098, @wongma7) [SIG Storage]
- Ensures that volume is deleted from the storage backend when the user tries to delete the PV object manually and the PV ReclaimPolicy is Delete. (#105773, @deepakkinni) [SIG Apps and Storage]

Also, please note:
- using `application/vnd.kubernetes.protobuf` as the media storage type for 1.6 is default but not required
- the ability to rollback to etcd2 can be preserved by setting the storage media type flag on `kube-apiserver`

  ```
  --storage-media-type application/json
  ```

  to continue to use `application/json` as the storage media type which can be changed to

  - Promoted API `VolumeAttributesClass` and `VolumeAttributesClassList` to `storage.k8s.io/v1beta1`. ([#126145](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126145), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, CLI, Etcd, Storage and Testing]

### Storage

[SIG Storage](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-storage) is responsible for storage and volume plugin components.