- Introduced the Node Declared Features capability (alpha), which includes:
  - A new `Node.Status.DeclaredFeatures` field for publishing node-specific features.
  - A `component-helpers` library for feature registration and inference.

- Deprecate the `topologyKeys` field in Service. This capability will be replaced with upcoming work around Topology Aware Subsetting and Service Internal Traffic Policy. ([#96736](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96736), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG Apps]

- Ensure that volume capability and staging target fields are present in nodeExpansion CSI calls

* **[stable]** Volume plugin for ScaleIO enabling pods to seamlessly access and use data stored on Dell EMC ScaleIO volumes.
* **[stable]** Volume plugin for Portworx added capability to use [Portworx](http://www.portworx.com) as a storage provider for Kubernetes clusters. Portworx pools server capacity and turns servers or cloud instances into converged, highly available compute and storage nodes.

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* Authentication information for OpenStack cloud provider can now be specified as environment variables. When we convert the OpenStack cloud provider to run in an external process, we can now use the kubernetes Secrets capability to inject the OS_* variables. This way we can specify the cloud configuration as a configmap, and specify secrets for the userid/password information. The configmap is mounted as a file, and the secrets are made available as environment variables....