- 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. ([...

* 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))

* 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))

* This change ensures that volumes get provisioned based on the zone information provided in allowedTopologies. ([#72731](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72731), [@skarthiksrinivas](https://github.com/skarthiksrinivas))
    ```
    Storage class spec:
    kind: StorageClass
    apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1
    metadata:
      name: fastpolicy1
    provisioner: kubernetes.io/vsphere-volume
    parameters:

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...

 - Newly provisioned PVs by Azure disk will no longer have the beta `FailureDomain` label. Azure disk volume plugin will start to have GA topology label instead. ([#101534](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101534), [@kassarl](https://github.com/kassarl))...

- 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. 
  

### Cloud Providers

  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

* 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))