- Fixes a 1.28 regression handling negative index json patches ([#120329](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120329), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]

* Updates Cinder AttachDisk operation to be more reliable by delegating Detaches to volume manager. ([#50042](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50042), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

* Make volume usage metrics available for Cinder ([#62668](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62668), [@zetaab](https://github.com/zetaab))

conjunction with SIG Cloud Provider, is focusing on moving internal APIs that the OpenStack (and other providers) depends upon to staging to guarantee API stability. This work also included abstracting the in-tree Cinder API and refactoring code to the external Cinder provider to remove additional Cinder volume provider code.

Additional work was also done to implement an OpenStack driver for the Cluster API effort lead by SIG Cluster Lifecycle. For the external Cloud-Provider-OpenStack code, the...

- OpenStack Cinder CSI migration is now GA and switched on by default, Cinder CSI driver must be installed on clusters on OpenStack for Cinder volumes to work (has been since v1.21). ([#107462](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107462), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- Improves IPVS proxy performance by only running `EnsureDummyInterface` if the virtual server address is not binded already. ([#92609](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92609), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG Network]

        * At Request audit level or higher, an annotation with key "patch.webhook.admission.k8s.io/round_{round idx}_index_{order idx}" get logged with the JSON payload logging the patch sent by a webhook for given request.

- Use network.Interface.VirtualMachine.ID to get the binded VM
  Skip standalone VM when reconciling LoadBalancer ([#97639](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97639), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

## Dependencies

### Added

    * Fixed performance regression in veth device driver
    * Docker and related binaries are statically linked
    * Fixed the issue of systemd being oom-killable

    * a PersistentVolumeClaim without a StorageClass annotation now results in
    * automatic provisioning of storage (GCE PersistentDisk on Google Cloud, AWS
    * EBS on AWS, and Cinder on OpenStack). In previous versions of Kubernetes
    * a PersistentVolumeClaim without a StorageClass annotation on these cloud
    * platforms would be satisfied by manually-created PersistentVolume objects.