- CSI drivers can now opt in to receive service account tokens via the secrets field instead of volume context by setting `spec.serviceAccountTokenInSecrets: true` in the CSIDriver object. This prevents tokens from being exposed in logs and other outputs. The feature...

- Promote CSIMigrationOpenStack to Beta (off by default since it requires installation of the OpenStack Cinder CSI Driver. The in-tree AWS OpenStack Cinder driver "kubernetes.io/cinder" was deprecated in 1.16 and will be removed in 1.20. Users should enable CSIMigration + CSIMigrationOpenStack features and install the OpenStack Cinder CSI Driver (https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-openstack) to avoid disruption to existing Pod and PVC objects at that time. Users should...

### Deprecation of FlexVolume

FlexVolume is deprecated. Out-of-tree CSI driver is the recommended way to write volume drivers in Kubernetes.
See [this doc](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-storage/volume-plugin-faq.md#kubernetes-volume-plugin-faq-for-storage-vendors) for more information.
Maintainers of FlexVolume drivers should implement a CSI driver and move users of FlexVolume to CSI.

  as it requires installation of AzureFile CSI Driver. Users should enable CSIMigration and
  CSIMigrationAzureFile features and install the [AzureFile CSI Driver](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/azurefile-csi-driver)
  to avoid disruption to existing Pod and PVC objects at that time. Azure File CSI driver does not support using same persistent

  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 kubelet so it would no longer crash when a DRA(Dynamic Resource Allocation) driver returns a nil as part of the Node(Un)PrepareResources response instead of an empty struct (Did not affect drivers written in Go, first showed up with a driver written in Rust). returns a nil as part of the Node(Un)PrepareResources response instead of an empty struct (did not affect drivers written in Go, first showed up with a driver written in Rust). ([#124091](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124091),...

* Bug fixes

  * Fixes issue with Flexvolume, introduced in 1.6.0, where drivers without an attacher would fail (node indefinitely waiting for attach). A driver API addition is introduced: drivers that don't implement attach should return attach: false on init. ([#47503](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47503), [@chakri-nelluri](https://github.com/chakri-nelluri))

    * 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

#### **Other**

*   Pod Security Policy can now manage access to specific FlexVolume drivers ([#53179](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53179),[ @wanghaoran1988](https://github.com/wanghaoran1988))

### 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))