wittrock))

* The strategicmerge patchMergeKey for VolumeMounts was changed from "name" to "mountPath".  This was necessary because the name field refers to the name of the Volume, and is not a unique key for the VolumeMount.  Multiple VolumeMounts will have the same Volume name if mounting the same volume more than once.  The "mountPath" is verified to be unique and can act as the mergekey.  ([#35071](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35071), [@pwittrock](https://github.com/pwittrock))...

### Promoted CSI Ephemeral Volume to Stable

SIG Storage continued work to [enable migration of in-tree volume plugins](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/625) to the Container Storage Interface (CSI). SIG Storage worked on bringing CSI to feature parity with in-tree functionality, including functionality like resizing, inline volumes, and more. SIG Storage introduces new alpha functionality in CSI that doesn't exist in the Kubernetes Storage subsystem yet, like volume cloning.

Volume cloning enables users to specify...

- Add e2e test to node expand volume with secret ([#115451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115451), [@zhucan](https://github.com/zhucan)) [SIG Storage and Testing]

services:
  minio1:
    <<: *minio-common
    hostname: minio1
    volumes:
      - data1-1:/data1
      - data1-2:/data2
      - data1-3:/data3

  minio2:
    <<: *minio-common
    hostname: minio2
    volumes:
      - data2-1:/data1
      - data2-2:/data2
      - data2-3:/data3

  minio3:
    <<: *minio-common
    hostname: minio3
    volumes:
      - data3-1:/data1
      - data3-2:/data2

- Adds PV deletion protection finalizer only when PV reclaimPolicy is Delete for dynamically provisioned volumes. ([#109205](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109205), [@deepakkinni](https://github.com/deepakkinni))
- Allowed attached volumes to be mounted quicker by skipping exponential backoff when checking for reported-in-use volumes. ([#106853](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106853), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

- Fixed a race condition that could result in erroneous volume unmounts for flex volume plugins during kubelet restart. ([#127669](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127669), [@olyazavr](https://github.com/olyazavr))

- Fixed attaching volumes after detach errors. Now volumes that failed to detach are not treated as attached. Kubernetes will make sure they are fully attached before they can be used by pods. ([#120595](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120595), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))...

  - Kubeadm: removed the integrated support for flex-volumes in kubeadm. Users were advised to migrate away from flex-volumes as recommended by SIG Storage, since 1.22. If kubeadm users wish to continue using the feature, they would need a custom image for the KCM that is not based on distroless, pass the KCM flag `--flex-volume-plugin-dir` and mount the directory `/usr/libexec/kubernetes/kubelet-plugins/volume/exec` in the KCM static pod using kubeadm's `extraVolumes` mechanism before...

  
  It matches all PVC objects that have the volume attributes class mentioned.