* **[stable]** Volume plugin for ScaleIO enabling pods to seamlessly access and use data stored on Dell EMC ScaleIO volumes.
* **[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.

        Mockito.when(mockConfig.getSessionLimit()).thenReturn(10);

        // Clear buffer cache for consistent test results
        BufferCache.clearCache();
    }

    /**
     * Test connection pool scalability with concurrent access
     */
    @Test
    public void testConnectionPoolConcurrentPerformance() throws Exception {
        SmbTransportPoolImpl pool = new SmbTransportPoolImpl();
        pool.setMaxPoolSize(100);

- Bump node-problem-detector version to v0.8.5 to fix OOM detection in with Linux kernels 5.1+ ([#96716](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96716), [@tosi3k](https://github.com/tosi3k)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Scalability and Testing]

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MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage solution released under the GNU AGPL v3.0 license. Designed for speed and scalability, it powers AI/ML, analytics, and data-intensive workloads with industry-leading performance.

🔹 S3 API Compatible – Seamless integration with existing S3 tools
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- Added jitter factor to lease controller that better smears load on kube-apiserver over time. ([#101652](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101652), [@marseel](https://github.com/marseel)) [SIG API Machinery and Scalability]
- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Reduce critical section in watchcache to fix kube-apiserver scalability under heavy load of list requests ([#122027](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122027), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG API Machinery]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- sigs.k8s.io/apiserver-network-proxy/konnectivity-client: v0.0.27 → v0.0.30

### Removed
_Nothing has changed._

- 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:...

 - Kubelet:  removed the deprecated flag `--cloud-config` from the command line. ([#130161](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130161), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Node and Scalability]

- Improved PVC Protection Controller's scalability by batch-processing PVCs by namespace with lazy live pod listing. ([#125372](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/125372), [@hungnguyen243](https://github.com/hungnguyen243)) [SIG Apps, Node, Storage and Testing]