- Migrated the StatefulSet controller (within `kube-controller-manager`) to use [contextual logging](https://k8s.io/docs/concepts/cluster-administration/system-logs/#contextual-logging) ([#113840](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113840),...

* All pods with priorityClassName system-node-critical and system-cluster-critical will be critical pods while preserving backwards compatibility. ([#58835](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58835), [@ravisantoshgudimetla](https://github.com/ravisantoshgudimetla))

*   [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
    *   Added file system resizing for the following volume plugins: GCE PD, Ceph RBD, AWS EBS, OpenStack Cinder
*   [alpha] Topology Aware Volume Scheduling

- The e2e suite can be instructed not to wait for pods in kube-system to be ready or for all nodes to be ready by passing `--allowed-not-ready-nodes=-1` when invoking...

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