### Other notable changes

* change default azure file/dir mode to 0755 ([#56551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56551), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

* fix incorrect error info when creating an azure file PVC failed ([#56550](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56550), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* Retry 'connection refused' errors when setting up clusters on GCE. ([#57394](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57394), [@mborsz](https://github.com/mborsz))

New alpha features include:
* Online volume resizing will increase the filesystem size of a resized volume without requiring a Pod restart.
* AWS EBS and GCE PD volumes support increased limits on the maximum number of attached volumes per node.
* Subpath volume directories can be created using DownwardAPI environment variables.

* Fixed an issue with informers missing an `Added` event if a recently deleted object was immediately recreated at the same time the informer dropped a watch and relisted. ([#83911](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83911), [@matte21](https://github.com/matte21))

### Feature

- Add NeedResize function to kubernetes/mount-utils, user can call this function to determine if fs need to be resized ([#101253](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101253), [@AndyXiangLi](https://github.com/AndyXiangLi)) [SIG Storage]
- Base image updates to mitigate kube-proxy and etcd container image CVEs

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