- Changed feature CSIMigrationAWS to on by default. This feature requires the AWS EBS CSI driver to be installed. (#106098, @wongma7) [SIG Storage]
- Ensures that volume is deleted from the storage backend when the user tries to delete the PV object manually and the PV ReclaimPolicy is Delete. (#105773, @deepakkinni) [SIG Apps and Storage]

### Storage Capacity and Volume Expansion Are Generally Available

[Storage capacity tracking](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/1472)
supports exposing currently available storage capacity via [CSIStorageCapacity objects](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/storage-capacity/#api)
and enhances scheduling of pods that use CSI volumes with late binding.

- Renamed Label cluster to `storage_cluster_id` for `apiserver_storage_size_bytes metric` ([#124283](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124283), [dims](https://github.com/dims))
- Bumped the stability level of apiserver_storage_size_bytes to `STABLE` ([#123342](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123342), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

- GlusterFS in-tree storage driver which was deprecated at kubernetes 1.25 release has been removed entirely in 1.26. ([#112015](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112015), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec)) [SIG API Machinery, Cloud Provider, Instrumentation, Node, Scalability, Storage and Testing]

- Kube-apiserver: fixes a 1.27+ regression in watch stability by serving watch requests without a resourceVersion from the watch cache by default, as in <1.27 (disabling the change in #115096 by default). This mitigates the impact of an etcd watch bug (https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/pull/17555). If the 1.27 change in #115096 to serve these requests from underlying storage is still desired despite the impact on watch stability,...

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