calls had to fetch key/value stored in secret and use it to authenticate/authorize these operations. With this change API calls receive key/value as a input parameter so they not need to know where and how credentials were stored and fetched. Main goal was to make these API calls CO (Container Orchestrator) agnostic.  ([#60118](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60118), [@sbezverk](https://github.com/sbezverk))

* StorageOS volume plugin has been updated to support mount options...

### SIG IBM Cloud

[CSI Migration](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2021/12/10/storage-in-tree-to-csi-migration-status-update/#quick-recap-what-is-csi-migration-and-why-migrate) is an ongoing effort that SIG Storage has been working on for a few releases. The goal is to move in-tree volume plugins to out-of-tree CSI drivers and eventually remove the in-tree volume plugins. The [core CSI Migration](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/tree/master/keps/sig-storage/625-csi-migration) feature moved to GA....

- Client-go events: `NewEventBroadcasterAdapterWithContext` should be used instead of `NewEventBroadcasterAdapter` if the goal is to support contextual logging. ([#122142](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122142), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Scheduling]

  - go_gc_heap_allocs_bytes_total
  - go_gc_heap_allocs_objects_total
  - go_gc_heap_frees_by_size_bytes
  - go_gc_heap_frees_bytes_total
  - go_gc_heap_frees_objects_total
  - go_gc_heap_goal_bytes
  - go_gc_heap_objects_objects
  - go_gc_heap_tiny_allocs_objects_total
  - go_gc_pauses_seconds
  - go_memory_classes_heap_free_bytes
  - go_memory_classes_heap_objects_bytes

* This adds some useful metrics around pending changes and last successful ([#78602](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78602), [@paulgmiller](https://github.com/paulgmiller))
    * sync time.
 
    * The goal is for administrators to be able to alert on proxies that, for
    * whatever reason, are quite stale.