Sig Storage graduated two features that had been introduced in previous versions and introduced three new features in an alpha state.

The StorageProtection feature, which prevents deletion of PVCs while Pods are still using them and of PVs while still bound to a PVC, is now generally available, and volume resizing, which lets you increase size of a volume after a Pod restarts is now beta, which means it is on by default.

New alpha features include:

- For statically provisioned PVs, if their volume source is of CSI type or they have a migrated annotation, when they are deleted, the PersistentVolume controller won't change their phase to the Failed state. With this patch, the external provisioner can remove the finalizer in the...

- Existing InTree AzureFile PVs which don't have a secret namespace defined will now work properly after enabling CSI migration - the namespace will be obtained from ClaimRef. ([#108000](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108000), [@RomanBednar](https://github.com/RomanBednar))...

- The `volume_zone` plugin will consider `beta` labels as `GA` labels during the scheduling
  process. Therefore, if the values of the labels are the same, PVs with `beta` labels
  can also be scheduled to nodes with `GA` labels. ([#118923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118923), [@AxeZhan](https://github.com/AxeZhan))

* Add iptables rules to allow Pod traffic even when default iptables policy is to reject. ([#52569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/52569), [@tmjd](https://github.com/tmjd))
* Validate positive capacity for PVs and PVCs. ([#55532](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55532), [@ianchakeres](https://github.com/ianchakeres))

  * Marking a StorageClass as default makes it so that even a PersistentVolumeClaim without a StorageClass specified will trigger dynamic provisioning (instead of binding to an existing pool of PVs).
  * If you depend on the old behavior of volumes binding to existing pool of PersistentVolume objects then modify the StorageClass object and set `storageclass.beta.kubernetes.io/is-default-class` to `false`.

* The Local Volume Plugin has been updated to support Block volumeMode PVs. With this change, it is now possible to create local volume PVs for raw block devices. ([#59303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59303), [@dhirajh](https://github.com/dhirajh))

  repeated PersistentVolume items = 2;
}

// PersistentVolumeSource is similar to VolumeSource but meant for the
// administrator who creates PVs. Exactly one of its members must be set.
message PersistentVolumeSource {
  // gcePersistentDisk represents a GCE Disk resource that is attached to a

- Etcd: Update to v3.5.3 ([#109471](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109471), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus))

- Fixed a bug in the job controller to not mutate the shared cache ([#104130](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104130), [@adtac](https://github.com/adtac)) [SIG Apps]
- For statically provisioned PVs ensure that we use canonical path whenever possible for attach/detach ([#104485](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104485), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Storage]