- Improved CRI handling
  - crictl is no longer required in docker-only setups.
  - Better detection of installed CRI.
  - Better output for image pull errors.
- Improved air-gapped and offline support
  - kubeadm now handles air-gapped environments by using the local client version as a fallback.
  - Some kubeadm commands are now allowed to work in a completely offline mode.
- Certificate handling improvements:

 - The metric `storage_operation_errors_total` is not removed, but is marked deprecated, and the metric `storage_operation_status_count` is marked deprecated. In both cases the `storage_operation_duration_seconds` metric can be used to recover equivalent counts (using `status=fail-unknown` in the case of `storage_operations_errors_total`). ([#99045](https:...

- kube-proxy metrics are now marked as with the ALPHA stability level. ([#81626](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81626), [@logicalhan](https://github.com/logicalhan))

- CRI API had auth fields in image pulling marked as `debug_redact`. ([#133135](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133135), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev))

- Terminated Pods on a node will not be re-admitted on kubelet restart. This fixes the problem of Completed Pods awaiting for the finalizer marked as Failed after the kubelet restart. ([#127208](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127208), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Node and Testing]

- The Pods and Pod controllers that are exempted from the PodSecurity admission process are now marked with the `pod-security.kubernetes.io/exempt: user/namespace/runtimeClass` annotation, based on what caused the exemption.
  
  The enforcement level that allowed or denied a Pod during PodSecurity admission is now marked by the `pod-security.kubernetes.io/enforce-policy` annotation.
  

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- Bug Fix: Kube-proxy dropped endpointSlice's local endpoints when upgrading from 1.20 to 1.22 ([#110245](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110245), [@xh4n3](https://github.com/xh4n3)) [SIG Network]
- EndpointSlices marked for deletion are now ignored during reconciliation. ([#110482](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110482), [@aryan9600](https://github.com/aryan9600)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- Kubernetes is now built with Golang 1.18.3 ([#110422](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110422), [@cpanato](https://github.com/cpanato)) [SIG Release and Testing]

### Bug or Regression

- EndpointSlices marked for deletion are now ignored during reconciliation. ([#110484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110484), [@aryan9600](https://github.com/aryan9600)) [SIG Apps and Network]

* **[beta]** kubeadm is enhanced and improved with a baseline feature set and command line flags that are now marked as beta. Other parts of kubeadm, including subcommands under `kubeadm alpha`, are [still in alpha](https://kubernetes.io/docs/admin/kubeadm/).  Using it is considered safe, although note that upgrades and HA are not yet supported. Please [try it ...