- Pod priority and preemption enables Kubernetes scheduler to schedule more important Pods first and when cluster is out of resources, it removes less important pods to create room for more important ones. The importance is specified by priority.
kubernetes/kubernetes: [#73498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73498), [#73555](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73555), [#74465](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74465)

kubeadm >= 1.24. Remove the DockerValidor and ServiceCheck for the `docker` service from kubeadm preflight. Docker is no longer special cased during host validation and ideally this task should be done in the now external cri-dockerd project where the importance of the compatibility matters. Use `crictl` for all communication with CRI sockets for actions like pulling images and obtaining a list of running containers instead of using the docker CLI in the case of Docker. ([#107317](https://github.com/ku...