Kubernetes Changelog

This page summarizes major CSI changes made in each Kubernetes release. For details on individual features, visit the Features section.

Kubernetes 1.28

Features

Kubernetes 1.27

Features

Kubernetes 1.26

Features

  • GA
    • Delegate fsgroup to CSI driver
    • Azure File CSI migration
    • vSphere CSI migration
  • Alpha
    • Cross namespace volume provisioning

Kubernetes 1.25

Features

Deprecation

  • In-tree plugin removal:
    • AWS EBS
    • Azure Disk

Kubernetes 1.24

Features

  • GA
    • Volume expansion
    • Storage capacity tracking
    • Azure Disk CSI Migration
    • OpenStack Cinder CSI Migration
  • Beta
    • Volume populator
  • Alpha
    • SELinux relabeling with mount options
    • Prevent volume mode conversion

Kubernetes 1.23

Features

  • GA
    • CSI fsgroup policy
    • Non-recusrive fsgroup ownership
    • Generic ephemeral volumes
  • Beta
    • Delegate fsgroup to CSI driver
    • Azure Disk CSI Migration (on-by-default)
    • AWS EBS CSI Migration (on-by-default)
    • GCE PD CSI Migration (on-by-default)
  • Alpha
    • Recover from Expansion Failure
    • Honor PV Reclaim Policy
    • RBD CSI Migration
    • Portworx CSI migration

Kubernetes 1.22

Features

  • GA
    • Windows CSI (CSI-Proxy API v1)
    • Pod token requests (CSIServiceAccountToken)
  • Alpha
    • ReadWriteOncePod access mode
    • Delegate fsgroup to CSI driver
    • Generic data populators

Kubernetes 1.21

Features

  • Beta
    • Pod token requests (CSIServiceAccountToken)
    • Storage capacity tracking
    • Generic ephemeral volumes

Kubernetes 1.20

Breaking Changes

  • Kubelet no longer creates the target_path for NodePublishVolume in accordance with the CSI spec. Kubelet also no longer checks if staging and target paths are mounts or corrupted. CSI drivers need to be idempotent and do any necessary mount verification.

Features

  • GA
    • Volume snapshots and restore
  • Beta
    • CSI fsgroup policy
    • Non-recusrive fsgroup ownership
  • Alpha
    • Pod token requests (CSIServiceAccountToken)

Kubernetes 1.19

Deprecations

  • Behaviour of NodeExpandVolume being called between NodeStage and NodePublish is deprecated for CSI volumes. CSI drivers should support calling NodeExpandVolume after NodePublish if they have node EXPAND_VOLUME capability

Features

  • Beta
    • CSI on Windows
    • CSI migration for AzureDisk and vSphere drivers
  • Alpha
    • CSI fsgroup policy
    • Generic ephemeral volumes
    • Storage capacity tracking
    • Volume health monitoring

Kubernetes 1.18

Deprecations

  • storage.k8s.io/v1beta1 CSIDriver object has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
  • In a future release, kubelet will no longer create the CSI NodePublishVolume target directory, in accordance with the CSI specification. CSI drivers may need to be updated accordingly to properly create and process the target path.

Features

  • GA
    • Raw block volumes
    • Volume cloning
    • Skip attach
    • Pod info on mount
  • Beta
    • CSI migration for Openstack cinder driver.
  • Alpha
    • CSI on Windows
  • storage.k8s.io/v1 CSIDriver object introduced.

Kubernetes 1.17

Breaking Changes

  • CSI 0.3 support has been removed. CSI 0.3 drivers will no longer function.

Deprecations

  • storage.k8s.io/v1beta1 CSINode object has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

Features

  • GA
    • Volume topology
    • Volume limits
  • Beta
    • Volume snapshots and restore
    • CSI migration for AWS EBS and GCE PD drivers
  • storage.k8s.io/v1 CSINode object introduced.

Kubernetes 1.16

Features

  • Beta
    • Volume cloning
    • Volume expansion
    • Ephemeral local volumes

Kubernetes 1.15

Features

  • Volume capacity usage metrics
  • Alpha
    • Volume cloning
    • Ephemeral local volumes
    • Resizing secrets

Kubernetes 1.14

Breaking Changes

  • csi.storage.k8s.io/v1alpha1 CSINodeInfo and CSIDriver CRDs are no longer supported.

Features

  • Beta
    • Topology
    • Raw block
    • Skip attach
    • Pod info on mount
  • Alpha
    • Volume expansion
  • storage.k8s.io/v1beta1 CSINode and CSIDriver objects introduced.

Kubernetes 1.13

Deprecations

  • CSI spec 0.2 and 0.3 are deprecated and support will be removed in Kubernetes 1.17.

Features

Kubernetes 1.12

Breaking Changes

Kubelet device plugin registration is enabled by default, which requires CSI plugins to use driver-registrar:v0.3.0 to register with kubelet.

Features

  • Alpha
    • Snapshots
    • Topology
    • Skip attach
    • Pod info on mount
  • csi.storage.k8s.io/v1alpha1 CSINodeInfo and CSIDriver CRDs were introduced and have to be installed before deploying a CSI driver.

Kubernetes 1.11

Features

Kubernetes 1.10

Breaking Changes

  • CSI spec 0.1 is no longer supported.

Features

  • Beta support added for CSI spec 0.2. This added optional NodeStageVolume and NodeUnstageVolume calls which map to Kubernetes MountDevice and UnmountDevice operations.

Kubernetes 1.9

Features