- Traffic shaping is now supported for the CNI network driver. ([#63194](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/63194), [@m1093782566](https://github.com/m1093782566))

         the new CRI + CNI code path.
      * If you are using plugins other than `bridge`, make sure you have
        updated custom plugins to the latest version that is compatible.
* **CNI plugins now affect node readiness**
  * Kubelet will now block node readiness until a CNI configuration file is
    present in `/etc/cni/net.d` or a given custom CNI configuration path.

- Update CNI plugins to v0.8.7 ([#94367](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94367), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Network, Node, Release and Testing]

## Dependencies

### Added

- Update CNI plugins to v0.8.7 ([#94367](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/94367), [@justaugustus](https://github.com/justaugustus)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Network, Node, Release and Testing]

## Dependencies

### Added

    *   Support for the iptables kube-proxy backend using ip6tables.
    *   Relies on CNI 0.6.0 binaries for IPv6 pod networking.
    *   Adds IPv6 support for kube-dns using SRV records.
    *   Caveats
        *   Only the CNI bridge and local-ipam plugins have been tested for the alpha release, although other CNI plugins do support IPv6.
        *   HostPorts are not supported.

* kubelet now accepts a --cni-cache-dir option, which defaults to /var/lib/cni/cache, where CNI stores cache files. ([#78908](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78908), [@dcbw](https://github.com/dcbw))

* kubelet's `--cni-bin-dir` option now accepts multiple comma-separated CNI binary directory paths, which are searched for CNI plugins in the given order. ([#58714](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58714), [@dcbw](https://github.com/dcbw))

- When a CNI plugin returns dual-stack pod IPs, kubelet will now try to respect the
  "primary IP family" of the cluster by picking a primary pod IP of the same family
  as the (primary) node IP, rather than assuming that the CNI plugin returned the IPs
  in the order the administrator wanted (since some CNI plugins don't allow

* [IPVS] Introduces flag ipvs-strict-arp to configure stricter ARP sysctls, defaulting to false to preserve existing behaviors. This was enabled by default in 1.13.0, which impacted a few CNI plugins. ([#75295](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75295), [@lbernail](https://github.com/lbernail))

- Kubelet: the following dockershim related flags are also removed along with dockershim `--experimental-dockershim-root-directory`, `--docker-endpoint`, `--image-pull-progress-deadline`, `--network-plugin`, `--cni-conf-dir`, `--cni-bin-dir`, `--cni-cache-dir`, `--network-plugin-mtu`. ([#106907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106907), [@cyclinder](https://github.com/cyclinder))