* Fix issue that vSphere cloud provider cannot delete volume which is provisioned in datastore specified in storageclass ([#65550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65550), [@w-leads](https://github.com/w-leads))

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- An issues preventing volume expand controller to annotate the PVC with `volume.kubernetes.io/storage-resizer` when the PVC StorageClass is already updated to the out-of-tree provisioner is now fixed. ([#94489](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94489), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Storage]

* Clusters with GCE feature 'DiskAlphaAPI' enabled can now dynamically provision GCE PD volumes. ([#59447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59447), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

* Added `keyring` parameter for Ceph RBD provisioner. ([#58287](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58287), [@madddi](https://github.com/madddi))

* Bugfix: vSphere Cloud Provider (VCP) does not need any special service account anymore. ([#59440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59440), [@rohitjogvmw](https://github.com/rohitjogvmw))
* vSphere Cloud Provider supports VMs provisioned on vSphere v1.6.5 ([#59519](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59519), [@abrarshivani](https://github.com/abrarshivani))

  1. For volumes provisioned/deleted via external provisioner/deleter, `storage_operation_duration_seconds` will NOT wait for the external operation to be done before reporting latency metric (effectively close to 0). This will be fixed by using `volume_operation_total_seconds` instead

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

- An issues preventing volume expand controller to annotate the PVC with `volume.kubernetes.io/storage-resizer` when the PVC StorageClass is already updated to the out-of-tree provisioner is now fixed. ([#94489](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94489), [@ialidzhikov](https://github.com/ialidzhikov)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps and Storage]

 - Newly provisioned PVs by EBS plugin will no longer use the deprecated "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone" and "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region" labels. It will use "topology.kubernetes.io/zone" and "topology.kubernetes.io/region" labels instead. ([...

promoted the [Kubernetes volume topology feature](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/490) to beta. This enables Kubernetes to understand and act intelligently on volume accessibility information (such as the “zone” a cloud volume is provisioned in, the “rack” that a SAN array is accessible from, and so on).

The [dynamic maximum volume count](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/554) feature was also moved to beta. This enables a volume plugin to specify the maximum...

* Extend TLS timeouts to work around slow arm64 math/big ([#66264](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66264), [@joejulian](https://github.com/joejulian))
* Allow ScaleIO volumes to be provisioned without having to first manually create /dev/disk/by-id path on each kubernetes node (if not already present) ([#66174](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66174), [@ddebroy](https://github.com/ddebroy))

- For statically provisioned PVs, if its volume source is CSI type or it has migrated annotation, when it's deleted, the PersisentVolume controller won't changes its phase to the Failed state.