diff --git a/release-tools/filter-junit.go b/release-tools/filter-junit.go
index cf1cb4ab..5454092b 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 0a960c47..2b46c187 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 74cc017a..5cddb69f 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
@@ -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"