- Unlocked the `CSIMigrationvSphere` feature gate. The change allow users to continue using the in-tree vSphere driver,pending a vSphere CSI driver release that has with GA support for Windows, XFS, and raw block access. ([#116396](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116396), [@msau42](https://github.com/msau42)) [SIG Storage]

### Bug or Regression

* Docker versions 1.10.3 - 1.12.3
  * Docker version 1.11.2 known issues
    - Kernel crash with Aufs storage driver on Debian Jessie ([#27885]((https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/27885))
      which can be identified by the [node problem detector](http://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/node-problem/)

- 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]

- The in-tree cloud provider for vSphere has been deprecated and removed. Users are advised to utilize the external cloud provider and CSI driver available at https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-vsphere. ([#122937](https://...

### Action Required

* ACTION REQUIRED: Removes defaulting of CSI file system type to ext4. All the production drivers listed under https://kubernetes-csi.github.io/docs/drivers.html were inspected and should not be impacted after this change. If you are using a driver not in that list, please test the drivers on an updated test cluster first. ``` ([#65499](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65499), [@krunaljain](https://github.com/krunaljain))

    * 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

import com.google.common.annotations.J2ktIncompatible;
import org.jspecify.annotations.NullUnmarked;

/** Simple derived class to verify that we handle generics correctly. */
@GwtCompatible
@NullUnmarked
class Derived extends Base {
  public Derived(String s) {
    super(s);
  }

  @GwtIncompatible @J2ktIncompatible private static final long serialVersionUID = 0;

#### Docker runtime Known Issues

- Kernel crash with Aufs storage driver on Debian Jessie ([#27885](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/27885))

### Promoted CRD Validation Expression Language to Beta

pkg database/sql/driver, type ColumnConverter //deprecated
pkg database/sql/driver, type Conn interface, Begin //deprecated
pkg database/sql/driver, type Execer //deprecated
pkg database/sql/driver, type Queryer //deprecated
pkg database/sql/driver, type Stmt interface, Exec //deprecated
pkg database/sql/driver, type Stmt interface, Query //deprecated