// and identical values are considered to be in the same topology.
  // We consider each <key, value> as a "bucket", and try to put balanced number
  // of pods into each bucket.
  // We define a domain as a particular instance of a topology.
  // Also, we define an eligible domain as a domain whose nodes meet the requirements of
  // nodeAffinityPolicy and nodeTaintsPolicy.

### SIG Auth

- We will no longer automatically delete all data when a failure is detected during creation of the volume data file on a CSI volume. Now we will only remove the data file and volume path. ([#96021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96021), [@huffmanca](https://github.com/huffmanca)) [SIG Storage]

  - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/pull/4985: If you previously included .git in an AWS or Azure URL, we will no longer automatically remove that suffix. You may need to add an extra / to replace the .git for the URL to properly...

For more information, see [#53109](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/53109).

## Deprecations

58502), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

* Authentication information for OpenStack cloud provider can now be specified as environment variables. When we convert the OpenStack cloud provider to run in an external process, we can now use the kubernetes Secrets capability to inject the OS_* variables. This way we can specify the cloud configuration as a configmap, and specify secrets for the userid/password information. The configmap is mounted as a file, and the secrets are made...

- We will no longer automatically delete all data when a failure is detected during creation of the volume data file on a CSI volume. Now we will only remove the data file and volume path. ([#96021](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96021), [@huffmanca](https://github.com/huffmanca)) [SIG Storage]

 - Remove storage metrics `storage_operation_errors_total`, since we already have `storage_operation_status_count`.And add new field `status` for `storage_operation_duration_seconds`, so that we can know about all status storage operation latency. ([#98332](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98332), [@JornShen](https://github.com/JornShen)) [SIG Instrumentation and Storage]...

### Instrumentation

NoSchedule taint if the taint is added to a Node.  There is an open PR ([#48189](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48189)) to resolve this issue, but as this issue also exists in 1.6, and as we do not wish to risk release stability by merging it directly prior to a release without sufficient testing, we have decided to defer merging the PR until the next point release for each minor version ([#48190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48190)).

* Protobuf serialization does...