- Adds PV deletion protection finalizer only when PV reclaimPolicy is Delete for dynamically provisioned volumes. ([#109205](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109205), [@deepakkinni](https://github.com/deepakkinni))
- Allowed attached volumes to be mounted quicker by skipping exponential backoff when checking for reported-in-use volumes. ([#106853](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106853), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

- Fixed attaching volumes after detach errors. Now volumes that failed to detach are not treated as attached, Kubernetes will make sure they are fully attached before they can be used by pods. ([#120595](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120595), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))...

    - [Generic Ephemeral Volume feature graduates to GA](#generic-ephemeral-volume-feature-graduates-to-ga)
    - [Skip Volume Ownership change graduates to GA](#skip-volume-ownership-change-graduates-to-ga)
    - [Allow CSI drivers to opt-in to volume ownership and permission change graduates to GA](#allow-csi-drivers-to-opt-in-to-volume-ownership-and-permission-change-graduates-to-ga)

- Fixed a race condition that could result in erroneous volume unmounts for flex volume plugins during kubelet restart. ([#127669](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127669), [@olyazavr](https://github.com/olyazavr))

- Fixed attaching volumes after detach errors. Now volumes that failed to detach are not treated as attached. Kubernetes will make sure they are fully attached before they can be used by pods. ([#120595](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120595), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))...

  - Kubeadm: removed the integrated support for flex-volumes in kubeadm. Users were advised to migrate away from flex-volumes as recommended by SIG Storage, since 1.22. If kubeadm users wish to continue using the feature, they would need a custom image for the KCM that is not based on distroless, pass the KCM flag `--flex-volume-plugin-dir` and mount the directory `/usr/libexec/kubernetes/kubelet-plugins/volume/exec` in the KCM static pod using kubeadm's `extraVolumes` mechanism before...

  
  It matches all PVC objects that have the volume attributes class mentioned. 
  

- Kubelet: Fix the volume manager didn't check the device mount state in the actual state of the world before marking the volume as detached. It may cause a pod to be stuck in the Terminating state due to the above issue when it was deleted. ([#129063](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129063), [@carlory](https...

 - Kubelet flag `--keep-terminated-pod-volumes` was removed.  This flag was deprecated in 2017. ([#122082](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122082), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory)) [SIG Apps, Node, Storage and Testing]
 
## Changes by Kind

### Deprecation

        req = new SmbComReadAndX();
        resp = new SmbComReadAndXResponse();

        connect0();
        dest.connect0();

        /* At this point the maxBufferSize values are from the server
         * exporting the volumes, not the one that we will actually
         * end up performing IO with. If the server hosting the
         * actual files has a smaller maxBufSize this could be