* A new volume manager was introduced in kubelet that synchronizes volume mount/unmount (and attach/detach, if attach/detach controller is not enabled). ([#26801](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/26801), [@saad-ali](https://github.com/saad-ali))
    * This eliminates the race conditions between the pod creation loop and the orphaned volumes loops. It also removes the unmount/detach from the `syncPod()` path so volume clean up never blocks the `syncPod` loop.