- 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://...

	"path"
	"slices"
	"strings"
	"time"
)

// Writer provides sequential writing of a tar archive.
// [Writer.WriteHeader] begins a new file with the provided [Header],
// and then Writer can be treated as an io.Writer to supply that file's data.
type Writer struct {
	w    io.Writer
	pad  int64      // Amount of padding to write after current file entry
	curr fileWriter // Writer for current file entry

}

func (m *MetricValues) setDriveBasicMetrics(drive madmin.Disk, labels []string) {
	m.Set(driveUsedBytes, float64(drive.UsedSpace), labels...)
	m.Set(driveFreeBytes, float64(drive.AvailableSpace), labels...)
	m.Set(driveTotalBytes, float64(drive.TotalSpace), labels...)
	m.Set(driveUsedInodes, float64(drive.UsedInodes), labels...)
	m.Set(driveFreeInodes, float64(drive.FreeInodes), labels...)

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

### 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))

### Promoted CRD Validation Expression Language to Beta

    * 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

#### Docker runtime Known Issues

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

  by default. The CSI drivers can make use of the `secretRef` values passed in `NodeExpansion`
  request optionally sent by the CSI Client from this release onwards. ([#121303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121303), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))

* Fixed an issue where Portworx volume driver wasn't passing namespace and annotations to the Portworx Create API. ([#59607](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59607), [@harsh-px](https://github.com/harsh-px))