The generic ephemeral volume feature moved to GA in 1.23.
This feature allows any existing storage driver that supports dynamic provisioning to be used as an ephemeral volume with the volume’s lifecycle bound to the Pod.
All StorageClass parameters for volume provisioning and all features supported with PersistentVolumeClaims are supported.

### Skip Volume Ownership change graduates to GA

- Fixed mixed protocol issue for Azure load balancer ([#74200](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74200), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Fixed Azure accounts timeout issue when there is no out-bound IP ([#74191](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74191), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Fixed a bug in block volume expansion. ([#77317](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77317), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
- Count PVCs that are unbound towards attach limit. ([#73863](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73863), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

### VMware

## Changelog since v1.30.6

## Changes by Kind

### Bug or Regression

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Kube-apiserver: sets an upper-bound on the lifetime of idle keep-alive connections and time to read the headers of incoming requests ([#103958](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103958), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]

    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_lower_limit_seats`: Configured lower bound on number of execution seats available to each priority level
    - `apiserver_flowcontrol_upper_limit_seats`: Configured upper bound on number of execution seats available to each priority level

* Fix race condition in setting node statusUpdateNeeded flag  ([#32807](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32807), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))
* kube-proxy: Add a lower-bound for conntrack (128k default) ([#33051](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33051), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

* Tune down initialDelaySeconds for readinessProbe. ([#33146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33146), [@MrHohn](https://github.com/MrHohn))
* kube-proxy: Add a lower-bound for conntrack (128k default) ([#33051](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33051), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

- Expanded the on-disk kubelet credential provider configuration to allow an optional `tokenAttribute` field to be configured. When it is set, the kubelet will provision a token with the given audience bound to the current pod and its service account. This KSA token along with required annotations on the KSA defined in configuration will be sent to the credential provider plugin via its standard input (along with the image information that is already sent...

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