release is the work on moving internal APIs that the vSphere provider depends upon to staging to guarantee API stability. This work is being done in conjunction with SIG Cloud Provider and includes the creation of a brand new vsphere-csi plugin to replace the current volume functionalities in-tree.

Additional work was also done to implement a vSphere provider for the Cluster API effort lead by SIG Cluster Lifecycle. For the out-of-tree vSphere cloud provider, the SIG largely focused on...

* Fix multi-attach error spam in logs and events ([#53401](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53401), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))
* Use `not-ready` to replace `notReady` in node condition taint keys. ([#51266](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51266), [@resouer](https://github.com/resouer))

			ReplicaSync:             "enable",
			ExistingObjectReplicate: "enable",
		}

		switch {
		case hasRule:
			if ruleARN != opts.DestBucket {
				// remove stale replication rule and replace rule with correct target ARN
				if len(replicationConfig.Rules) > 1 {
					err = replicationConfig.RemoveRule(opts)
				} else {
					replicationConfig = replication.Config{}
				}
				if err == nil {

- Pass additional flags to subpath mount to avoid flakes in certain conditions ([#104348](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104348), [@mauriciopoppe](https://github.com/mauriciopoppe)) [SIG Storage]

### API Change

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- Added error message "dry-run can not be used when --force is set" when dry-run and force flags are set in replace command. ([#110326](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110326), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu))

* StatefulSets now include an alpha scaling feature accessible by setting the `spec.podManagementPolicy` field to `Parallel`.  The controller will not wait for pods to be ready before adding the other pods, and will replace deleted pods as needed.  Since parallel scaling creates pods out of order, you cannot depend on predictable membership changes within your set. ([#44899](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44899), [@smarterclayton](https://github.com/smarterclayton))...

* [IPVS] Allow for transparent kube-proxy restarts ([#75283](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75283), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

  apiserver_flowcontrol_current_executing_requests ([#119110](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119110), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim)) [SIG API Machinery and Instrumentation]
- Replace `apiserver_storage_db_total_size_in_bytes` with `apiserver_storage_size_bytes` metric ([#118812](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118812), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius)) [SIG API Machinery, Instrumentation and Testing]