of the beta plugin registration directory `{kubelet_root_dir}/plugins/` for registration of external drivers via the kubelet plugin registration protocol is deprecated in favor of `{kubelet_root_dir}/plugins_registry/`. Support for the old directory is planned to be removed in v1.15. Device plugin and CSI storage drivers should switch to the new directory prior to v1.15. Only CSI storage drivers that support 0.x versions of the CSI API are allowed in the old directory. ([#70494](https://github.c...

- Some of the in-tree storage drivers indicate support for the `MetricsProvider` interface, but fail to configure this for BlockMode volumes. With a recent change, `Kubelet` will call `GetMetrics()` for BlockMode volumes, and the in-tree drivers that miss the support cause a Go panic. Now the in-tree storage drivers that support BlockMode volumes, will return the Capacity of the volume in the `GetMetrics()` call. ([#1015...

### Security Improvements for CSI Drivers (Alpha)

 - [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...

- DRA kubelet: gRPC API graduated to v1, v1beta1 was deprecated starting in 1.34. Updating DRA drivers to the `k8s.io/dynamic-resource-allocation/kubeletplugin` helper from 1.34 added support for both API versions. ([#132700](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132700), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Node and Testing]

### Action Required

* ACTION REQUIRED: Removes defaulting of CSI file system type to ext4. All the production drivers listed under https://kubernetes-csi.github.io/docs/drivers.html were inspected and should not be impacted after this change. If you are using a driver not in that list, please test the drivers on an updated test cluster first. ([#65499](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65499), [@krunaljain](https://github.com/krunaljain))

- Kubeadm: fixed a bug where an image is not...

crash when a DRA(Dynamic Resource Allocation) driver returns a nil as part of the Node(Un)PrepareResources response instead of an empty struct (Did not affect drivers written in Go, first showed up with a driver written in Rust). returns a nil as part of the Node(Un)PrepareResources response instead of an empty struct (did not affect drivers written in Go, first showed up with a driver written in Rust). ([#124091](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124091), [@bitoku](https://github.com/bitoku))...

- This release added support for `NodeExpandSecret` for CSI driver client which enables the CSI drivers to make use of this secret while performing node expansion operation based on the user request. Previously there was no secret  provided as part of the `nodeexpansion` call, thus CSI drivers did not make use of the same while expanding the volume at the node side. ([#105963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105963), [@zhucan](...

- Metric names for CSI and flexvolume drivers will include the driver name as well as the CSI plugin name. ([#96474](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96474), [@mattcary](https://github.com/mattcary)) [SIG Instrumentation and Storage]