*/
    public static void registerDriver(final Driver driver) {
        assertArgumentNotNull("driver", driver);

        try {
            DriverManager.registerDriver(driver);
        } catch (final SQLException e) {
            throw new SQLRuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Deregisters a JDBC driver.
     *
     * @param driver

- The alpha Dynamic Resource Allocation gRPC API is still available, but might be removed in future releases. Driver authors should update their DRA drivers to use the v1beta1 gRPC API. ([#128646](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/128646), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- kubelet + DRA: For DRA driver plugins (and only for those!), the kubelet now supports a rolling update with `maxSurge > 0` in the driver's DaemonSet. A DRA driver must support this, which can be done via the k8s.io/dynamic-resource-allocation/kubeletplugin helper package. ([#129832](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129832), [@po...

### Failing Test

- DRA driver helper: Fixed handling of apiserver restart when running on a Kubernetes version which did not support the `resource.k8s.io` version used by the DRA driver. ([#133076](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133076), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG Node and Testing]

  by default. The CSI drivers can make use of the `secretRef` values passed in `NodeExpansion`
  request optionally sent by the CSI Client from this release onwards. ([#121303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121303), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))

- 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),...

Fixed kubelet so it would no longer 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),...

#### Storage

- The in-tree cloud provider for vSphere has been deprecated and removed. Users are advised to utilize the external cloud provider and CSI driver available at https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-vsphere. ([#122937](https://...

* [alpha] Improve Flex volume deployment

  * Flex volume driver deployment is simplified in the following ways:

    * New driver files can now be automatically discovered and initialized without requiring a kubelet or controller-manager restart.

    * A sample DaemonSet to deploy Flexvolume drivers is now available.

* [prototype] Volume snapshots