</p>

<h2 id="Blocks">Blocks</h2>

<p>
A <i>block</i> is a possibly empty sequence of declarations and statements
within matching brace brackets.
</p>

<pre class="ebnf">
Block         = "{" StatementList "}" .
StatementList = { Statement ";" } .
</pre>

<p>
In addition to explicit blocks in the source code, there are implicit blocks:
</p>

<ol>

	   annotation, you should delete any existing NetworkPolicy
	   objects. These would have had no effect before, but with v1
	   semantics they might cause some traffic to be blocked that you
	   didn't intend to be blocked.

### Other notable changes

* Added exponential backoff to Azure cloudprovider ([#46660](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46660), [@jackfrancis](https://github.com/jackfrancis))

- local: support local filesystem volume with block resource reconstruction ([#84218](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84218), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

### OpenStack

In this cycle, SIG OpenStack focused on configuration simplification through smarter defaults and the use of auto-detection wherever feasible (Block Storage API versions, Security Groups) as well as updating API support, including:

*   Block Storage (Cinder) V3 is now supported.
*   Load Balancer (Octavia) V2 is now supported, in addition to Neutron LBaaS V2.
*   Neutron LBaas V1 support has been removed.

* The Local Volume Plugin has been updated to support Block volumeMode PVs. With this change, it is now possible to create local volume PVs for raw block devices. ([#59303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59303), [@dhirajh](https://github.com/dhirajh))

- For raw block CSI volumes on Kubernetes, kubelet was incorrectly calling CSI NodeStageVolume for every single "map" (i.e. raw block "mount") operation for a volume already attached to the node. This PR ensures it is only called once per volume per node. ([#112403](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112403), ...

	   annotation, you should delete any existing NetworkPolicy
	   objects. These would have had no effect before, but with v1
	   semantics they might cause some traffic to be blocked that you
	   didn't intend to be blocked.

### Other notable changes

1) Alpha for AWS ALB (Application Load Balancer) integration to Kubernetes Ingress resources.
2) Alpha for CSI specification 0.3 integration to AWS EBS (Elastic Block Store)

* Added block volume support to Cinder volume plugin. ([#64879](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64879), [@bertinatto](https://github.com/bertinatto))
* Provided API support for external CSI storage drivers to support block volumes. ([#64723](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64723), [@vladimirvivien](https://github.com/vladimirvivien))

* switch to VM Update call in attach/detach disk operation, original CreateOrUpdate call may lead to orphaned VMs or blocked resources ([#81208](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81208), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))