* fix the issue that default azure disk fsypte(ext4) does not work on Windows ([#62250](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62250), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Fixed bug in rbd-nbd utility when nbd is used. ([#62168](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62168), [@piontec](https://github.com/piontec))

- More fields are allowed at the root of the CRD validation schema when the status subresource is enabled. ([#65357](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65357), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita))
- api-machinery utility functions `SetTransportDefaults` and `DialerFor` once again respect custom Dial functions set on transports ([#65547](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65547), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

volume availability, the API now enables volume resizing and snapshotting. These features are in alpha.
The SIG also focused on providing more control over storage: the ability to set requests and
limits on ephemeral storage, the ability to specify mount options, more metrics, and improvements to Flex driver deployments.

[SIG Storage]: https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-storage

## Before Upgrading

### SIG CLI introduces kubectl debug

* Disable proxy to loopback and linklocal ([#71980](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71980), [@micahhausler](https://github.com/micahhausler))
* kube-scheduler: restores ability to run without authentication configuration lookup permissions ([#71755](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/71755), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Kubeadm: fix an issue with the kube-proxy container env. variables ([#84888](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84888), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))
- Utilize diagnostics tool to dump GKE windows test logs ([#83517](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83517), [@YangLu1031](https://github.com/YangLu1031))

## Changes by Kind

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Fixes ability to build 1.28 without network access ([#119982](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119982), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Testing]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

* The ability to use kubectl scale jobs is deprecated. All other scale operations remain in place, but the ability to scale jobs will be removed in a future release.  ([#60139](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60139), [@soltysh](https://github.com/soltysh))

* Fix GCE etcd scripts to pass in all required parameters for the etcd migration utility to correctly perform HA upgrades and downgrades ([#61956](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61956), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

- Fixed incorrect log information in the `iptables` utility. ([#110723](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110723), [@yangjunmyfm192085](https://github.com/yangjunmyfm192085))