* vSphere cloud provider: Remove the dependency of login information on worker nodes for vsphere cloud provider. ([#43545](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43545), [@luomiao](https://github.com/luomiao))

* Fix space issue in volumePath with vSphere Cloud Provider ([#38338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38338), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))
* Fix panic in vSphere cloud provider ([#38423](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38423), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))

* Fix space issue in volumePath with vSphere Cloud Provider ([#38338](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38338), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))
* Fix issue when attempting to unmount a wrong vSphere volume ([#37413](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37413), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))

- `diskformat` storage class parameter for in-tree vSphere volume plugin is deprecated as of v1.21 release. Please consider updating storageclass and remove `diskformat` parameter. vSphere CSI Driver does not support diskformat storageclass parameter.
  
  vSphere releases less than 67u3 are deprecated as of v1.21. Please consider upgrading vSphere to 67u3 or above. vSphere CSI Driver requires minimum vSphere 67u3.
  

    * ...
    * I0109 11:17:59.430113       1 vsphere.go:1334] The canonical volume path for the newly created vSphere volume is "[vsanDatastore] 98db185c-6683-d8c7-bc55-0200435ec5da/kubernetes-dynamic-pvc-34650c12-1400-11e9-aef4-005056804cc9.vmdk"
    * Ran regression tests (no zone) and they passed.

* Allow attach of volumes to multiple nodes for vSphere ([#51066](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51066), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))
* vSphere: Fix attach volume failing on the first try. ([#51217](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51217), [@BaluDontu](https://github.com/BaluDontu))

## Changes by Kind

### Deprecation

- Added support for vSphere in-tree volumes migration to vSphere CSI driver. The in-tree vSphere Volume plugin will be deprecated and removed in a future release.
  

* Reduced excessive logging from fluentd-gcp-scaler. ([#68837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68837), [@x13n](https://github.com/x13n))
* locking fix in vSphere cleanup function ([#68388](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68388), [@wgliang](https://github.com/wgliang))
    * The vSphere cloud provider has a cleanup function with a loop,
    * inside of which a write lock was intended to prevent races against

* Bugfix: vSphere Cloud Provider (VCP) does not need any special service account anymore. ([#59440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59440), [@rohitjogvmw](https://github.com/rohitjogvmw))
* vSphere Cloud Provider supports VMs provisioned on vSphere v1.6.5 ([#59519](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59519), [@abrarshivani](https://github.com/abrarshivani))

### Other notable changes

* AWS: Add ap-south-1 to list of known AWS regions ([#28428](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/28428), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))
* Back porting critical vSphere bug fixes to release 1.3 ([#31993](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/31993), [@dagnello](https://github.com/dagnello))