- Added network stats for Windows nodes and pods. ([#70121](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70121), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- kubeadm now includes the ability to specify certificate encryption and decryption keys for the upload and download certificate phases as part of the new v1beta2 kubeadm config format. ([#77012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77012), [@rosti](https://github.com/rosti))

- Added functionality to enable br_netfilter and ip_forward for debian packages to improve kubeadm support for CRI runtime besides Docker.  ([#70152](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70152), [@ashwanikhemani](https://github.com/ashwanikhemani))

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  ### Packet
  - Allow empty nodepools
  - Add support for multiple nodepools
  - Add pricing support
  
  ## Image
  Image: `k8s.gcr.io/autoscaling/cluster-autoscaler:v1.20.0` ([#97012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97012), [@towca](https://github.com/towca)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

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