### Storage

    *   Dynamic provisioning is not supported with this feature yet.
*   [alpha] Containerized mount utilities
    *   Allow mount utilities, used to mount volumes, to run inside a container instead of on the host.
*   Bug Fixes

- Rename metrics `etcd_object_counts` to `apiserver_storage_object_counts` and mark it as stable. The original `etcd_object_counts` metrics name is marked as "Deprecated" and will be removed in the future. ([#99785](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99785), [@erain](https://github.com/erain)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation...

- Fix: Mount point may become local without calling NodePublishVolume after node rebooting. ([#119923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119923), [@cvvz](https://github.com/cvvz)) [SIG Node and Storage]

* Fixes issue where subpath readOnly mounts failed ([#63045](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63045), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42))
* Fix stackdriver metrics for node memory using wrong metric type ([#63535](https://github.co/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63535), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

* Because some plugins mount volume on sub-directory of volume path, we need to distinguish between volume path and mount path to fix issue in reconstruction. ([#74653](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74653), [@cofyc](https://github.com/cofyc))

implementation is changed to not return an error when the specified target can be detected as not a mount point. On Linux, the behavior of detecting a mount point depends on `umount` command is validated when the mounter is created. Additionally, mount point checks will be skipped in CleanupMountPoint/CleanupMountWithForce if the mounter's Unmount having the changed behavior of not returning error when target is not a mount point. ([#109676](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109676), [@cartermckin...

- For CSI drivers, kubelet no longer creates the target_path for NodePublishVolume in accordance with the CSI spec. Kubelet also no longer checks if staging and target paths are mounts or corrupted. CSI drivers need to be idempotent and do any necessary mount verification. ([#88759](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88759), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage]

* Add `container_state` label to `running_container_count` kubelet metrics, to get count of containers based on their state(running/exited/created/unknown) ([#81573](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81573),...

- Do not unmount and mount subpath bind mounts during container creation unless bind mount changes ([#105512](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105512), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage]