- [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)
    - [PodSecurity graduates to Beta](#podsecurity-graduates-to-beta)

- This release added support for `NodeExpandSecret` for CSI driver client which enables the CSI drivers to make use of this secret while performing node expansion operation based on the user request. Previously there was no secret  provided as part of the `nodeexpansion` call, thus CSI drivers did not make use of the same while expanding the volume at the node side. ([#105963](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105963), [@zhucan](...

### CSI Proxy for Windows

The CSI Proxy for Windows is being promoted to beta along with the 1.19 release. This CSI Proxy enables CSI Drivers to run on Windows by allowing containers in Windows to perform privileged storage operations. At beta, the CSI Proxy for Windows supports storage drivers using direct attached disks and SMB.

### Dashboard v2

- NFS Drivers are now enabled to collect metrics, StatFS metrics provider is used to collect the metrics. (@brahmaroutu) ([#75805](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75805), [@brahmaroutu](https://github.com/brahmaroutu))

   ([#123508](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123508), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))
- Dynamic Resource Allocation: DRA drivers can now use "structured parameters" to let the scheduler handle claim allocation.
   ([#123516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123516), [@pohly](https://github.com/pohly))

* Flex volume plugin is updated to support attach/detach interfaces. It broke backward compatibility. Please update your drivers and implement the new callouts.  ([#41804](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41804), [@chakri-nelluri](https://github.com/chakri-nelluri))

## Notable Features

every node, instead of being compiled into the Kubernetes binary. See [example](examples/volumes/flexvolume/README.md) for details.
  * vendor volumes into a pod. It expects vendor drivers are installed in the
volume plugin path on each kubelet node. This is an alpha feature and may
change in future.

- `CSINodeExpandSecret` feature has been promoted to `GA` in this release and is enabled
  by default. The CSI drivers can make use of the `secretRef` values passed in `NodeExpansion`

* Bug fixes

  * Fixes issue with Flexvolume, introduced in 1.6.0, where drivers without an attacher would fail (node indefinitely waiting for attach). A driver API addition is introduced: drivers that don't implement attach should return attach: false on init. ([#47503](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47503), [@chakri-nelluri](https://github.com/chakri-nelluri))

    * ACTION REQUIRED: the alpha CRDs are no longer used and drivers will need to be updated to use the beta APIs.
    * The support for `_` in the CSI driver name will be dropped as the CSI Spec does not allow that. 

### Other notable changes