#### Storage
- A node that uses a CSI raw block volume needs to be drained before kubelet can be upgraded to 1.17. ([#74026](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74026), [@mkimuram](https://github.com/mkimuram))

#### Windows

SIG Storage made a lot of progress in the 1.18 release.
In particular, the following storage features are moving to GA in Kubernetes 1.18:
- Raw Block Support: Allow volumes to be surfaced as block devices inside containers instead of just mounted filesystems.
- Volume Cloning: Duplicate a PersistentVolumeClaim and underlying storage volume using the Kubernetes API via CSI.

### Bug or Regression

- Allow deletion of pods that use raw block volumes on node reboot ([#122211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122211), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Node and Storage]

*   [alpha] Container Storage Interface
    *   New CSIVolumeSource enables Kubernetes to use external CSI drivers to provision, attach, and mount volumes.
*   [alpha] Raw block volumes
    *   Support for surfacing volumes as raw block devices added to Kubernetes storage system.
    *   Only Fibre Channel volume plugin supports exposes this functionality, in this release.
*   [alpha] Volume resizing

### Bug or Regression

- Allow deletion of pods that use raw block volumes on node reboot ([#122211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122211), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Node and Storage]

* The Local Volume Plugin has been updated to support Block volumeMode PVs. With this change, it is now possible to create local volume PVs for raw block devices. ([#59303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59303), [@dhirajh](https://github.com/dhirajh))

- vSphereVolume implements Raw Block Volume Support  ([#68761](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68761), [@fanzhangio](https://github.com/fanzhangio))

### SIG Storage

* AWS EBS, Azure Disk, GCE PD and Ceph RBD volume plugins now support dynamic provisioning of raw block volumes. ([#64447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64447), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

- For raw block CSI volumes on Kubernetes, kubelet was incorrectly calling CSI `NodeStageVolume` for every single "map" (i.e. raw block "mount") operation for a volume already attached to the node. This change modified that behavior to ensure it is only called once per volume per node. ([#112403](https://github.com/k...

### Bug or Regression

- Allow deletion of pods that use raw block volumes on node reboot ([#122211](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122211), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Node and Storage]