Starting with Kubernetes `v1.36`, `kubelet` might refuse to start if the CRI runtime does not support this feature. More information can be found at the [Kubernetes blog](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/09/12/kubernetes-v1-34-cri-cgroup-driver-lookup-now-ga/). ([#134906](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134906), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

blackfriday

// blockbuster : Dish DBS Corporation
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/blockbuster.html
blockbuster

// blog : Knock Knock WHOIS There, LLC
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/blog.html
blog

// bloomberg : Bloomberg IP Holdings LLC
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/bloomberg.html
bloomberg

// blue : Identity Digital Limited

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

### Changed
- github.com/golang/glog: [v1.0.0 → 23def4e](https://github.com/golang/glog/compare/v1.0.0...23def4e)
- github.com/google/cel-go: [v0.12.4 → v0.12.5](https://github.com/google/cel-go/compare/v0.12.4...v0.12.5)

### Kubernetes release cadence change

- github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate: [v0.1.0 → v0.10.1](https://github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate/compare/v0.1.0...v0.10.1)
- github.com/golang/glog: [v1.0.0 → v1.1.0](https://github.com/golang/glog/compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0)
- github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2: [v2.1.1 → v2.7.1](https://github.com/googleapis/gax-go/v2/compare/v2.1.1...v2.7.1)
- go.opencensus.io: v0.23.0 → v0.24.0

- github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate: [v0.1.0 → v0.10.1](https://github.com/envoyproxy/protoc-gen-validate/compare/v0.1.0...v0.10.1)
- github.com/golang/glog: [v1.0.0 → v1.1.0](https://github.com/golang/glog/compare/v1.0.0...v1.1.0)
- github.com/golang/protobuf: [v1.5.2 → v1.5.3](https://github.com/golang/protobuf/compare/v1.5.2...v1.5.3)

The Kubernetes community [has written a blog post about this in detail](https://blog.k8s.io/2020/12/02/dont-panic-kubernetes-and-docker/) with [a dedicated FAQ page for it](https://blog.k8s.io/2020/12/02/dockershim-faq/).

### External credential provider for client-go

- Text logging in Kubernetes components now uses [textlogger](https://pkg.go.dev/k8s.io/klog/v2@v2.120.0/textlogger). The same split streams of info and error log entries with buffering of info entries is now also supported for text output (off by default, alpha feature). Previously, this was only supported for JSON. Performance is better also without split streams. ([#114...

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- Kube-apiserver: `--audit-log-version` and `--audit-webhook-version` now only support the default value of `audit.k8s.io/v1`. The v1alpha1 and v1beta1 audit log versions, deprecated since 1.13, have been removed. ([#108092](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108092), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))