- The metric `storage_operation_errors_total` is not removed, but is marked deprecated, and the metric `storage_operation_status_count` is marked deprecated. In both cases the `storage_operation_duration_seconds` metric can be used to recover equivalent...

### Storage

[SIG Storage](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/tree/master/sig-storage) is responsible for storage and volume plugin components.

- Set device stage path whenever available for expansion during mount ([#115346](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115346), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Storage and Testing]

      - `etcd_request_latencies_summary` -> `etcd_request_duration_seconds`
      - `apiserver_storage_transformation_latencies_microseconds ` -> `apiserver_storage_transformation_duration_seconds`
      - `apiserver_storage_data_key_generation_latencies_microseconds` -> `apiserver_storage_data_key_generation_duration_seconds`
      - `apiserver_request_count` -> `apiserver_request_total`

  - [Important Security Information](#important-security-information-1)
    - [CVE-2023-5528: Insufficient input sanitization in in-tree storage plugin leads to privilege escalation on Windows nodes](#cve-2023-5528-insufficient-input-sanitization-in-in-tree-storage-plugin-leads-to-privilege-escalation-on-windows-nodes)
  - [Changes by Kind](#changes-by-kind-5)
    - [API Change](#api-change)
    - [Feature](#feature-5)

### SIG Storage

[SIG Storage][] is responsible for storage and volume plugin components.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Storage extended the Kubernetes storage API. In addition to providing simple
volume availability, the API now enables volume resizing and snapshotting. These features are in alpha.
The SIG also focused on providing more control over storage: the ability to set requests and

    * --enable_load_reader
    * --event_storage_age_limit
    * --event_storage_event_limit
    * --global_housekeeping_interval
    * --google-json-key
    * --log_cadvisor_usage
    * --machine_id_file
    * --storage_driver_user
    * --storage_driver_password
    * --storage_driver_host
    * --storage_driver_db
    * --storage_driver_table
    * --storage_driver_secure

  `apiserver_request_latencies`
  `apiserver_request_latencies_summary`
  `apiserver_dropped_requests`
  `etcd_request_latencies_summary`
  `apiserver_storage_transformation_latencies_microseconds`
  `apiserver_storage_data_key_generation_latencies_microseconds`
  `apiserver_storage_transformation_failures_total`
  ([#83837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83837), [@RainbowMango](https://github.com/RainbowMango))

    - [SIG-instrumentation](#sig-instrumentation)
    - [SIG-node](#sig-node)
    - [SIG-OpenStack](#sig-openstack)
    - [SIG-scheduling](#sig-scheduling)
    - [SIG-service-catalog](#sig-service-catalog)
    - [SIG-storage](#sig-storage)
    - [SIG-vmware](#sig-vmware)
    - [SIG-windows](#sig-windows)
  - [Action Required](#action-required-1)
  - [Deprecations and removals](#deprecations-and-removals)
  - [New Features](#new-features)

Before upgrading to Kubernetes 1.13, you must keep the following in mind:

- kube-apiserver