- Kubelet: following metrics have been renamed:
  kubelet_running_container_count --> kubelet_running_containers
  kubelet_running_pod_count --> kubelet_running_pods ([#92407](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92407), [@RainbowMango](https://github.com/RainbowMango)) [SIG API Machinery, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation and Node]

implementation is changed to not return an error when the specified target can be detected as not a mount point. On Linux, the behavior of detecting a mount point depends on `umount` command is validated when the mounter is created. Additionally, mount point checks will be skipped in CleanupMountPoint/CleanupMountWithForce if the mounter's Unmount having the changed behavior of not returning error when target is not a mount point. ([#109676](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109676), [@cartermckin...

    * - gcr.io/google-containers/kube-dnsmasq-amd64
* - Disable thin_ls due to excessive iops ([#43113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43113), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
    * - Ignore .mount cgroups, fixing dissappearing stats
    * - Fix wc goroutine leak
    * - Update aws-sdk-go dependency to 1.6.10

- Fix: set "host is down" as corrupted mount. When SMB server is down, there is no way to terminate pod which is using SMB mount, would get an error. ([#101398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101398), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

* Implement TLS bootstrap for kubelet using `--experimental-bootstrap-kubeconfig`  (2nd take) ([#30922](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30922), [@yifan-gu](https://github.com/yifan-gu))
* rkt: Support subPath volume mounts feature ([#30934](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30934), [@yifan-gu](https://github.com/yifan-gu))

- Fix: azure file mount timeout issue ([#88610](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88610), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]
- Fix: corrupted mount point in csi driver ([#88569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88569), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx)) [SIG Storage]

- `readOnly` volumes now support recursive read-only mounts for kernel versions >= 5.12."
   ([#123180](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123180), [@AkihiroSuda](https://github.com/AkihiroSuda))
- cri-api: Implemented KEP-3857: Recursive Read-only (RRO) mounts.
   ([#123272](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123272), [@AkihiroSuda](https://github.com/AkihiroSuda))

### StatefulSet

* Fix zone placement heuristics so that multiple mounts in a StatefulSet pod are created in the same zone ([#40910](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40910), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))

        * `apiserver_request_count`
        * `apiserver_request_latencies`
        * `apiserver_request_latencies_summary`
        * `apiserver_dropped_requests`
        * `etcd_helper_cache_hit_count`
        * `etcd_helper_cache_miss_count`
        * `etcd_helper_cache_entry_count`
        * `etcd_request_cache_get_latencies_summary`

* Allow mounts to run in parallel for non-attachable volumes ([#28939](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/28939), [@saad-ali](https://github.com/saad-ali))
* add enhanced volume and mount logging for block devices ([#24797](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/24797), [@screeley44](https://github.com/screeley44))