* **[stable]** Volume plugin for Portworx added capability to use [Portworx](http://www.portworx.com) as a storage provider for Kubernetes clusters. Portworx pools server capacity and turns servers or cloud instances into converged, highly available compute and storage nodes.
* **[stable]** Add support to use NFSv3, NFSv4, and GlusterFS on GCE/GKE GCI image based clusters.
* **[beta]** Added support for mount options in persistent volumes.

- Kubeadm: Removed the deprecated `UpgradeAddonsBeforeControlPlane` feature gate; Ensured that the upgrade of the CoreDNS and kube-proxy addons would not be triggered until all the control plane instances were upgraded. ([#124715](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124715), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

- Fix: leave the probe path empty for TCP probes ([#105253](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105253), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))
- Fix: remove VMSS and VMSS instances from SLB backend pool only when necessary ([#105839](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105839), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19))

  fix a kube-proxy skew policy misalignment. Its default value is `false`. Upgrade
  of the CoreDNS and kube-proxy addons will now trigger after all the control plane
  instances have been upgraded, unless the fearure gate is set to true. This feature
  gate will be removed in a future release. ([#117660](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117660), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

- Fixes a regression in 1.34 release candidates where object storage count metrics could include all instances of all types instead of only the object count for a particular type ([#133604](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133604), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery and Etcd]

## Dependencies

- Fixes a regression in the pod binding subresource to honor the `metadata.uid` precondition.
  This allows kube-scheduler to ensure it is assigns node names to the same instances of pods it made scheduling decisions for. ([#116776](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116776), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

- Fixes a regression in the pod binding subresource to honor the `metadata.uid` precondition.
  This allows kube-scheduler to ensure it is assigns node names to the same instances of pods it made scheduling decisions for. ([#116763](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116763), [@alculquicondor](https://github.com/alculquicondor)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]