### CSI Proxy for Windows

The CSI Proxy for Windows is being promoted to beta along with the 1.19 release. This CSI Proxy enables CSI Drivers to run on Windows by allowing containers in Windows to perform privileged storage operations. At beta, the CSI Proxy for Windows supports storage drivers using direct attached disks and SMB.

### Dashboard v2

  volume type when the kubelet was started, affecting the following volume types
  when the corresponding csi driver was installed:
  - `awsElasticBlockStore` for `ebs.csi.aws.com`
  - `azureDisk` for `disk.csi.azure.com`
  - `gcePersistentDisk` for `pd.csi.storage.googleapis.com`
  - `cinder` for `cinder.csi.openstack.org`
  - `csi`

  General Support for vSphere 6.7 will end on October 15, 2022. vSphere 6.7 Update 3 is deprecated in Kubernetes v1.24.  Customers are recommended to upgrade vSphere (both ESXi and vCenter) to 7.0u2 or above.  vSphere CSI Driver 2.2.3 and higher supports CSI Migration.

* Bugfix: csi plugin supporting raw block that does not need attach mounted failed ([#79920](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79920), [@cwdsuzhou](https://github.com/cwdsuzhou))

    - [go1.15.5](#go1155)
    - [CSI Volume Snapshot graduates to General Availability](#csi-volume-snapshot-graduates-to-general-availability)
    - [Non-recursive Volume Ownership (FSGroup) graduates to Beta](#non-recursive-volume-ownership-fsgroup-graduates-to-beta)
    - [CSIDriver policy for FSGroup graduates to Beta](#csidriver-policy-for-fsgroup-graduates-to-beta)

### Promoted CSI Ephemeral Volume to Stable

- Fixed an issue where a CSI migrated volume may be prematurely detached when the CSI driver is not running on the node.

- CephRBD volume plugin ( `kubernetes.io/rbd`) was removed in this release. And its csi migration support was also removed, so the `rbd` volume type became non-functional. Alternative is to use RBD CSI driver (https://github.com/ceph/ceph-csi/) in your Kubernetes Cluster. A re-deployment of your application is required to use the new driver if you were using `kubernetes.io/rbd` volume plugin before upgrading cluster...

#### Storage

- When PodInfoOnMount is enabled for a CSI driver, the new csi.storage.k8s.io/ephemeral parameter in the volume context allows a driver's NodePublishVolume implementation to determine on a case-by-case basis whether the volume is ephemeral or a normal persistent volume ([#79983](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79983), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

* Fixed CSI gRPC connection leak during volume operations. ([#64519](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64519), [@vladimirvivien](https://github.com/vladimirvivien))
* Fixed error reporting of CSI volumes attachment. ([#63303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63303), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))