diff --git a/pkg/gce-cloud-provider/compute/gce-compute.go b/pkg/gce-cloud-provider/compute/gce-compute.go
index f3d8d4414..41b736448 100644
--- a/pkg/gce-cloud-provider/compute/gce-compute.go
+++ b/pkg/gce-cloud-provider/compute/gce-compute.go
@@ -1117,9 +1117,13 @@ func (cloud *CloudProvider) waitForSnapshotCreation(ctx context.Context, project
 
 // kmsKeyEqual returns true if fetchedKMSKey and storageClassKMSKey refer to the same key.
 // fetchedKMSKey - key returned by the server
-//        example: projects/{0}/locations/{1}/keyRings/{2}/cryptoKeys/{3}/cryptoKeyVersions/{4}
+//
+//	example: projects/{0}/locations/{1}/keyRings/{2}/cryptoKeys/{3}/cryptoKeyVersions/{4}
+//
 // storageClassKMSKey - key as provided by the client
-//        example: projects/{0}/locations/{1}/keyRings/{2}/cryptoKeys/{3}
+//
+//	example: projects/{0}/locations/{1}/keyRings/{2}/cryptoKeys/{3}
+//
 // cryptoKeyVersions should be disregarded if the rest of the key is identical.
 func KmsKeyEqual(fetchedKMSKey, storageClassKMSKey string) bool {
 	return removeCryptoKeyVersion(fetchedKMSKey) == removeCryptoKeyVersion(storageClassKMSKey)
diff --git a/pkg/gce-pd-csi-driver/node_test.go b/pkg/gce-pd-csi-driver/node_test.go
index db4f5c15d..f064a4b18 100644
--- a/pkg/gce-pd-csi-driver/node_test.go
+++ b/pkg/gce-pd-csi-driver/node_test.go
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ Copyright 2018 The Kubernetes Authors.
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 You may obtain a copy of the License at
-    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+	http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
diff --git a/release-tools/filter-junit.go b/release-tools/filter-junit.go
index cf1cb4abf..5454092b1 100644
--- a/release-tools/filter-junit.go
+++ b/release-tools/filter-junit.go
@@ -35,10 +35,18 @@ var (
 )
 
 /*
- * TestSuite represents a JUnit file. Due to how encoding/xml works, we have
+ * TestResults represents a JUnit file. Due to how encoding/xml works, we have
  * represent all fields that we want to be passed through. It's therefore
  * not a complete solution, but good enough for Ginkgo + Spyglass.
+ *
+ * Before Kubernetes 1.25 and ginkgo v2, we directly had <testsuite> in the
+ * JUnit file. Now we get <testsuites> and inside it the <testsuite>.
  */
+type TestResults struct {
+	XMLName   string    `xml:"testsuites"`
+	TestSuite TestSuite `xml:"testsuite"`
+}
+
 type TestSuite struct {
 	XMLName   string     `xml:"testsuite"`
 	TestCases []TestCase `xml:"testcase"`
@@ -93,7 +101,15 @@ func main() {
 			}
 		}
 		if err := xml.Unmarshal(data, &junit); err != nil {
-			panic(err)
+			if err.Error() != "expected element type <testsuite> but have <testsuites>" {
+				panic(err)
+			}
+			// Fall back to Ginkgo v2 format.
+			var junitv2 TestResults
+			if err := xml.Unmarshal(data, &junitv2); err != nil {
+				panic(err)
+			}
+			junit = junitv2.TestSuite
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/release-tools/go-get-kubernetes.sh b/release-tools/go-get-kubernetes.sh
index 0a960c47e..2b46c187a 100755
--- a/release-tools/go-get-kubernetes.sh
+++ b/release-tools/go-get-kubernetes.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
-#
+
 # This script can be used while converting a repo from "dep" to "go mod"
 # by calling it after "go mod init" or to update the Kubernetes packages
 # in a repo that has already been converted. Only packages that are
diff --git a/release-tools/prow.sh b/release-tools/prow.sh
index 74cc017ab..ba64d7198 100755
--- a/release-tools/prow.sh
+++ b/release-tools/prow.sh
@@ -93,7 +93,10 @@ configvar CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_KIND "${CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_BUILD}" "Go version fo
 configvar CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_GINKGO "${CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_BUILD}" "Go version for building ginkgo" # depends on CSI_PROW_GINKGO_VERSION below
 
 # ginkgo test runner version to use. If the pre-installed version is
-# different, the desired version is built from source.
+# different, the desired version is built from source. For Kubernetes,
+# the version built via "make WHAT=vendor/github.com/onsi/ginkgo/ginkgo" is
+# used, which is guaranteed to match what the Kubernetes e2e.test binary
+# needs.
 configvar CSI_PROW_GINKGO_VERSION v1.7.0 "Ginkgo"
 
 # Ginkgo runs the E2E test in parallel. The default is based on the number
@@ -118,7 +121,7 @@ configvar CSI_PROW_BUILD_JOB true "building code in repo enabled"
 # use the same settings as for "latest" Kubernetes. This works
 # as long as there are no breaking changes in Kubernetes, like
 # deprecating or changing the implementation of an alpha feature.
-configvar CSI_PROW_KUBERNETES_VERSION 1.17.0 "Kubernetes"
+configvar CSI_PROW_KUBERNETES_VERSION 1.22.0 "Kubernetes"
 
 # CSI_PROW_KUBERNETES_VERSION reduced to first two version numbers and
 # with underscore (1_13 instead of 1.13.3) and in uppercase (LATEST
@@ -196,7 +199,7 @@ kindest/node:v1.14.10@sha256:f8a66ef82822ab4f7569e91a5bccaf27bceee135c1457c512e5
 # If the deployment script is called with CSI_PROW_TEST_DRIVER=<file name> as
 # environment variable, then it must write a suitable test driver configuration
 # into that file in addition to installing the driver.
-configvar CSI_PROW_DRIVER_VERSION "v1.3.0" "CSI driver version"
+configvar CSI_PROW_DRIVER_VERSION "v1.8.0" "CSI driver version"
 configvar CSI_PROW_DRIVER_REPO https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-driver-host-path "CSI driver repo"
 configvar CSI_PROW_DEPLOYMENT "" "deployment"
 configvar CSI_PROW_DEPLOYMENT_SUFFIX "" "additional suffix in kubernetes-x.yy[suffix].yaml files"
@@ -234,7 +237,7 @@ configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH "k8s.io/kubernetes" "E2E package"
 # of the cluster. The alternative would have been to (cross-)compile csi-sanity
 # and install it inside the cluster, which is not necessarily easier.
 configvar CSI_PROW_SANITY_REPO https://github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-test "csi-test repo"
-configvar CSI_PROW_SANITY_VERSION v4.3.0 "csi-test version"
+configvar CSI_PROW_SANITY_VERSION v5.0.0 "csi-test version"
 configvar CSI_PROW_SANITY_PACKAGE_PATH github.com/kubernetes-csi/csi-test "csi-test package"
 configvar CSI_PROW_SANITY_SERVICE "hostpath-service" "Kubernetes TCP service name that exposes csi.sock"
 configvar CSI_PROW_SANITY_POD "csi-hostpathplugin-0" "Kubernetes pod with CSI driver"
@@ -346,9 +349,12 @@ configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA "$(get_versioned_variable CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA "${csi
 # kubernetes-csi components must be updated, either by disabling
 # the failing test for "latest" or by updating the test and not running
 # it anymore for older releases.
-configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES_LATEST 'GenericEphemeralVolume=true,CSIStorageCapacity=true' "alpha feature gates for latest Kubernetes"
+configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES_LATEST '' "alpha feature gates for latest Kubernetes"
 configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES "$(get_versioned_variable CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES "${csi_prow_kubernetes_version_suffix}")" "alpha E2E feature gates"
 
+configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_GATES_LATEST '' "non alpha feature gates for latest Kubernetes"
+configvar CSI_PROW_E2E_GATES "$(get_versioned_variable CSI_PROW_E2E_GATES "${csi_prow_kubernetes_version_suffix}")" "non alpha E2E feature gates"
+
 # Which external-snapshotter tag to use for the snapshotter CRD and snapshot-controller deployment
 default_csi_snapshotter_version () {
 	if [ "${CSI_PROW_KUBERNETES_VERSION}" = "latest" ] || [ "${CSI_PROW_DRIVER_CANARY}" = "canary" ]; then
@@ -437,6 +443,10 @@ install_kind () {
 
 # Ensure that we have the desired version of the ginkgo test runner.
 install_ginkgo () {
+    if [ -e "${CSI_PROW_BIN}/ginkgo" ]; then
+        return
+    fi
+
     # CSI_PROW_GINKGO_VERSION contains the tag with v prefix, the command line output does not.
     if [ "v$(ginkgo version 2>/dev/null | sed -e 's/.* //')" = "${CSI_PROW_GINKGO_VERSION}" ]; then
         return
@@ -940,7 +950,9 @@ install_e2e () {
         patch_kubernetes "${GOPATH}/src/${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}" "${CSI_PROW_WORK}" &&
         go_version="${CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_E2E:-$(go_version_for_kubernetes "${GOPATH}/src/${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}" "${CSI_PROW_E2E_VERSION}")}" &&
         run_with_go "$go_version" make WHAT=test/e2e/e2e.test "-C${GOPATH}/src/${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}" &&
-        ln -s "${GOPATH}/src/${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}/_output/bin/e2e.test" "${CSI_PROW_WORK}"
+        ln -s "${GOPATH}/src/${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}/_output/bin/e2e.test" "${CSI_PROW_WORK}" &&
+        run_with_go "$go_version" make WHAT=vendor/github.com/onsi/ginkgo/ginkgo "-C${GOPATH}/src/${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}" &&
+        ln -s "${GOPATH}/src/${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}/_output/bin/ginkgo" "${CSI_PROW_BIN}"
     else
         run_with_go "${CSI_PROW_GO_VERSION_E2E}" go test -c -o "${CSI_PROW_WORK}/e2e.test" "${CSI_PROW_E2E_IMPORT_PATH}/test/e2e"
     fi
@@ -1254,7 +1266,8 @@ main () {
         fi
 
         if tests_need_non_alpha_cluster; then
-            start_cluster || die "starting the non-alpha cluster failed"
+            # Need to (re)create the cluster.
+            start_cluster "${CSI_PROW_E2E_GATES}" || die "starting the non-alpha cluster failed"
 
             # Install necessary snapshot CRDs and snapshot controller
             install_snapshot_crds
@@ -1304,7 +1317,11 @@ main () {
             delete_cluster_inside_prow_job non-alpha
         fi
 
-        if tests_need_alpha_cluster && [ "${CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES}" ]; then
+        # If the cluster for alpha tests doesn't need any feature gates, then we
+        # could reuse the same cluster as for the other tests. But that would make
+        # the flow in this script harder and wouldn't help in practice because
+        # we have separate Prow jobs for alpha and non-alpha tests.
+        if tests_need_alpha_cluster; then
             # Need to (re)create the cluster.
             start_cluster "${CSI_PROW_E2E_ALPHA_GATES}" || die "starting alpha cluster failed"
 
diff --git a/test/k8s-integration/version.go b/test/k8s-integration/version.go
index 24e3e8a1e..e67613cc0 100644
--- a/test/k8s-integration/version.go
+++ b/test/k8s-integration/version.go
@@ -131,9 +131,10 @@ func mustParseVersion(version string) *version {
 }
 
 // Helper function to compare versions.
-//  -1 -- if left  < right
-//   0 -- if left == right
-//   1 -- if left  > right
+//
+//	-1 -- if left  < right
+//	 0 -- if left == right
+//	 1 -- if left  > right
 func (v *version) compare(right *version) int {
 	for i, b := range v.version {
 		if b > right.version[i] {