- Server-side apply will now use the openapi provided in the CRD validation field to help figure out how to correctly merge objects and update ownership. ([#77354](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77354), [@jennybuckley](https://github.com/jennybuckley))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Fixes the flooding warning messages about setting volume ownership for configmap/secret volumes ([#92878](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92878), [@jvanz](https://github.com/jvanz)) [SIG Instrumentation, Node and Storage]

- Changed ownership semantics of PersistentVolume's spec.claimRef from `atomic` to `granular`. ([#110495](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110495), [@alexzielenski](https://github.com/alexzielenski))

- Fixed the occasional double-counting of the `job_finished_total` metric. ([#112948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112948), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))

* Update CSI version to 1.1 ([#75391](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75391), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
* Ensure ownership when deleting a load balancer security group ([#74311](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74311), [@hpedrorodrigues](https://github.com/hpedrorodrigues))

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### SIG-vmware

SIG-VMware development was primarily focused on fixing bugs for the in-tree cloud provider, starting the development of the external cloud provider and taking ownership of the cluster-api provider for vSphere.

In-tree cloud provider bug fixes and improvements included:
- Adding initial Zones support to the provider using vSphere Tags

    previously `TF_Session` has been renamed to `TF_DeprecatedSession`.
*   C API: Renamed `TF_Port` to `TF_Output`.
*   C API: The caller retains ownership of `TF_Tensor` objects provided to
    `TF_Run`, `TF_SessionRun`, `TF_SetAttrTensor` etc.
*   Renamed `tf.image.per_image_whitening()` to
    `tf.image.per_image_standardization()`