VM Hardware version less than 15 is deprecated as of v1.21. Please consider upgrading the Node VM Hardware version to 15 or above. vSphere CSI Driver recommends Node VM's Hardware version set to at least vmx-15.
  

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## Changes by Kind

### API Change

- Added the feature gates `StrictCostEnforcementForVAP` and `StrictCostEnforcementForWebhooks` to enforce the strct cost calculation for CEL extended libraries. It is strongly recommended to turn on the feature gates as early as possible. ([#124676](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124676), [@cici37](https://github.com/cici37)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Node and Testing]

		return errUnsupportedDisk
	}

	// We know XFS already supports O_DIRECT no need to check.
	if fsType == "XFS" {
		return nil
	}

	// For all other FS pay the price of not using our recommended filesystem.

	// Check if backend is writable and supports O_DIRECT
	uuid := mustGetUUID()
	filePath := pathJoin(s.drivePath, minioMetaTmpDeletedBucket, ".writable-check-"+uuid+".tmp")

- kube-apiserver:...

- Added support for CEL expressions with escaped names in the structured authentication config. Using `[...]` to access claims or user data was recommended when names contained characters that would otherwise need escaping. CEL optionals with `?` could be used where has was not applicable — for example, `claims[?"kubernetes.io"]` or `user.extra[?"domain.io/foo"]`. ([#131574](https://github.com/kub...

            project. Each subproject listed is a relative path to the directory containing the subproject.
            To be consistent with the way default URLs are calculated from parent, it is recommended
            to have subproject names match artifact ids.</description>
          <association>
            <type>String</type>
            <multiplicity>*</multiplicity>
          </association>
        </field>

- kube-apiserver

  - the `--basic-auth-file` flag and authentication mode is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. It is not recommended for production environments. ([#81152](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81152), [@tedyu](https://github.com/tedyu))

#### New Deprecations

really, you MUST read this before you upgrade)

- Added the ability to reduce both the initial delay and the maximum delay accrued between container restarts for a node for containers in `CrashLoopBackOff` across the cluster to the recommended values of `1s` initial delay and `60s` maximum delay. To set this for a node, turn on the feature gate `ReduceDefaultCrashLoopBackOffDecay`. If you are also using the feature gate `KubeletCrashLoopBackOffMax` with a configured per-node `CrashLo...