2) Alpha for CSI specification 0.3 integration to AWS EBS (Elastic Block Store)

  // +optional
  optional AWSElasticBlockStoreVolumeSource awsElasticBlockStore = 2;

  // hostPath represents a directory on the host.
  // Provisioned by a developer or tester.
  // This is useful for single-node development and testing only!
  // On-host storage is not supported in any way and WILL NOT WORK in a multi-node cluster.

	// kubelet's host machine and then exposed to the pod.
	// +optional
	AWSElasticBlockStore *AWSElasticBlockStoreVolumeSource
	// HostPath represents a directory on the host.
	// Provisioned by a developer or tester.
	// This is useful for single-node development and testing only!
	// On-host storage is not supported in any way and WILL NOT WORK in a multi-node cluster.
	// +optional
	HostPath *HostPathVolumeSource

	"hostPath":             "hostPath represents a directory on the host. Provisioned by a developer or tester. This is useful for single-node development and testing only! On-host storage is not supported in any way and WILL NOT WORK in a multi-node cluster. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes#hostpath",

  // +optional
  optional AWSElasticBlockStoreVolumeSource awsElasticBlockStore = 2;

  // hostPath represents a directory on the host.
  // Provisioned by a developer or tester.
  // This is useful for single-node development and testing only!
  // On-host storage is not supported in any way and WILL NOT WORK in a multi-node cluster.

	AWSElasticBlockStore *AWSElasticBlockStoreVolumeSource `json:"awsElasticBlockStore,omitempty" protobuf:"bytes,2,opt,name=awsElasticBlockStore"`
	// hostPath represents a directory on the host.
	// Provisioned by a developer or tester.
	// This is useful for single-node development and testing only!
	// On-host storage is not supported in any way and WILL NOT WORK in a multi-node cluster.

                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/io.k8s.api.core.v1.HostPathVolumeSource"
              }
            ],
            "description": "hostPath represents a directory on the host. Provisioned by a developer or tester. This is useful for single-node development and testing only! On-host storage is not supported in any way and WILL NOT WORK in a multi-node cluster. More info: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes#hostpath"
          },

this release is **compatibility** with Pydantic v1 and v2, to make sure your current apps keep working. Later there will be more focus on refactors, correctness, code improvements, and then **performance** improvements. Some third-party early beta testers that ran benchmarks on the beta releases of FastAPI reported improvements of **2x - 3x**. Which is not bad for just doing `pip install --upgrade fastapi pydantic`. This was not an official benchmark and I didn't check it myself, but it's a good sign....