([#41449](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41449),
  [@zmerlynn](https://github.com/zmerlynn))
* Kubelet: Remove the PLEG health check from /healthz, Kubelet will now report
* NodeNotReady on failed PLEG health check.
  ([#41569](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41569),
  [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

- Kubelet now tries to stop containers in unknown state once before restart or remove. ([#73802](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73802), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))
- When pleg channel is full, events are now discarded and count is recorded ([#72709](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72709), [@changyaowei](https://github.com/changyaowei))

- New metric `kubelet_pleg_last_seen_seconds` to aid diagnosis of PLEG not healthy issues. ([#86251](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/86251), [@bboreham](https://github.com/bboreham)) [SIG Node]

### Other (Bug, Cleanup or Flake)

- Fixed node lifecycle controller panic when conditionType ready is been patch `nil` by mistake. ([#122874](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122874), [@fusida](https://github.com/fusida))
- Fixed panic of Evented `PLEG` during kubelet start-up. ([#122475](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/122475), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

  * Fix a bug where container cannot run as root when SecurityContext.RunAsNonRoot is false. ([#47009](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/47009), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

  * Fix the Kubelet PLEG update timestamp to better reflect the health of the component when the container runtime request hangs. ([#45496](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45496), [@andyxning](https://github.com/andyxning))

- Graduated CRI Events driven Pod LifeCycle Event Generator (Evented PLEG) to Beta ([#115967](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115967), [@harche](https://github.com/harche))

- Added support for Evented PLEG feature gate. ([#111384](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111384), [@harche](https://github.com/harche))

* Moved qos to api.helpers. ([#44906](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/44906), [@k82cn](https://github.com/k82cn))
* Kubelet PLEG updates the relist timestamp only after successfully relisting. ([#45496](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45496), [@andyxning](https://github.com/andyxning))

- Migrate `pkg/kubelet/(pod, pleg)` to structured logging ([#98990](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98990), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Instrumentation and Node]