- Added `singleProcessOOMKill` flag to the kubelet configuration. Setting that to true enable single process OOM killing in cgroups v2. In this mode, if a single process is OOM killed within a container, the remaining processes will not be OOM killed. ([#126096](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/126096), [@utam0k](https://github.com/utam0k)) [SIG API Machinery, Node, Testing and Windows]

- If using cgroups v2, then the cgroup aware OOM killer will be enabled for container cgroups via  `memory.oom.group` .  This causes processes within the cgroup to be treated as a unit and killed simultaneously in the event of an OOM kill on any process in the cgroup. ([#117793](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117793), [@tzneal](https://github.com/tzneal)) [SIG Apps, Node and...

### Feature

- A `system-cluster-critical` pod should not get a low OOM Score. 
  

  `FROM --platform=linux/${arch} ${base_image}` ([#94552](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94552), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Release]
- Bump node-problem-detector version to v0.8.5 to fix OOM detection in with Linux kernels 5.1+ ([#96716](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96716), [@tosi3k](https://github.com/tosi3k)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Scalability and Testing]

### Documentation

- Documented the reason field in CRI API to ensure it equals `OOMKilled` for the containers terminated by OOM killer ([#112977](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112977), [@mimowo](https://github.com/mimowo))

- Memory limits could be decreased with a `NotRequired` resize restart policy. When decreasing memory limits,a best-effort check was performed to prevent limits from decreasing below usage and triggering an OOM-kill. ([#133012](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133012), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair)) [SIG Apps, Node and Testing]

- Pod will not start when Init container was OOM killed. ([#104650](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104650), [@yxxhero](https://github.com/yxxhero)) [SIG Node]

- Migrate `pkg/kubelet/lifecycle,oom` to structured logging ([#99479](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99479), [@mengjiao-liu](https://github.com/mengjiao-liu)) [SIG Instrumentation and Node]

- Azure: check the nil error before invoke err.Error() ([#96623](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96623), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Bump node-problem-detector version to v0.8.5 to fix OOM detection in with Linux kernels 5.1+ ([#96716](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96716), [@tosi3k](https://github.com/tosi3k)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Scalability and Testing]

- Bump node-problem-detector version to v0.8.5 to fix OOM detection in with Linux kernels 5.1+ ([#96716](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96716), [@tosi3k](https://github.com/tosi3k)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Scalability and Testing]