- Kubeadm: improved retries when updating node information, in case `kube-apiserver` is temporarily unavailable ([#114176](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114176), [@QuantumEnergyE](https://github.com/QuantumEnergyE))

* [alpha] Make locally attached (non-network attached) storage available as a persistent volume source. For more information, see [Storage Volumes - local](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/volumes/#local).

#### Volume Plugins

* [stable] Expose storage usage metrics

  * The available capacity of a given Persistent Volume (PV) is available by calling the Kubernetes metrics API.

* [stable] Volume plugin metrics

- Fix bug that would let the Horizontal Pod Autoscaler scale down despite at least one metric being unavailable/invalid ([#99514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99514), [@mikkeloscar](https://github.com/mikkeloscar)) [SIG Apps and Autoscaling]

        assertTrue(provider.isAvailable(), "Returned provider should be available");
    }

    @Test
    public void testCreateProviderTcp() {
        RdmaProvider provider = RdmaProviderFactory.createProvider("tcp");
        assertNotNull(provider, "TCP provider should always be available");
        assertTrue(provider.isAvailable(), "TCP provider should be available");

     *
     * @return true if at least one RDMA provider is available
     */
    public static boolean isRdmaAvailable() {
        return selectBestProvider() != null;
    }

    /**
     * Get list of all available RDMA providers
     *
     * @return list of available providers
     */
    public static List<String> getAvailableProviders() {

- Fixed error "dbus: connection closed by user" after dbus daemon restarts. ([#110496](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110496), [@kolyshkin](https://github.com/kolyshkin))
- Fixed image pull failure when `IMDS` is unavailable in kubelet startup. ([#110523](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110523), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

    return new DisniRdmaProvider().isAvailable() || 
           new JxioRdmaProvider().isAvailable();
}
```

## 7. Testing Strategy

### 7.1 Unit Tests
```java
@Test
public void testRdmaProviderSelection() {
    RdmaProvider provider = RdmaProviderFactory.createProvider("auto");
    assertNotNull(provider);
    assertTrue(provider.isAvailable());
}

@Test

    private boolean initialized = false;

    @Override
    public boolean isAvailable() {
        try {
            // Check if DiSNI is available on the classpath
            Class.forName("com.ibm.disni.RdmaActiveEndpointGroup");

            // Additional checks could include:
            // - Verifying RDMA devices are available
            // - Testing basic RDMA operations

     */
    boolean isTarget(Map<String, Object> docMap);

    /**
     * Checks if this thumbnail generator is available for use.
     * @return True if available, false otherwise.
     */
    boolean isAvailable();

    /**
     * Destroys this thumbnail generator and releases any resources.
     */
    void destroy();

    /**