- Added kubelet support for systemd watchdog integration. With this enabled, systemd can automatically recover a hung kubelet. ([#127566](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127566), [@zhifei92](https://github.com/zhifei92)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Node and Testing]

- Fixed occasional pod cgroup freeze when using cgroup v1 and systemd driver.

### Feature

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

## Known Issues

- github.com/coreos/bbolt: [v1.3.2](https://github.com/coreos/bbolt/tree/v1.3.2)
- github.com/coreos/etcd: [v3.3.13+incompatible](https://github.com/coreos/etcd/tree/v3.3.13)
- github.com/coreos/go-systemd: [95778df](https://github.com/coreos/go-systemd/tree/95778df)
- github.com/coreos/pkg: [399ea9e](https://github.com/coreos/pkg/tree/399ea9e)
- github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go: [v3.2.0+incompatible](https://github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go/tree/v3.2.0)

* The `system-node-critical` and `system-cluster-critical` priority classes are now limited to the `kube-system` namespace by the `PodPriority` admission plugin. ([#65593](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/65593), [@bsalamat](https://github.com/bsalamat))

### Other notable changes

- Kubelet no longer attempts to sync iptables on non-Linux systems.. ([#67690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67690), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
- Kubelet no longer applies default hard evictions of nodefs.inodesFree on non-Linux systems. ([#67709](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67709), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- github.com/coredns/corefile-migration: [v1.0.17 → v1.0.20](https://github.com/coredns/corefile-migration/compare/v1.0.17...v1.0.20)
- github.com/coreos/go-systemd/v22: [v22.3.2 → v22.4.0](https://github.com/coreos/go-systemd/v22/compare/v22.3.2...v22.4.0)
- github.com/creack/pty: [v1.1.11 → v1.1.18](https://github.com/creack/pty/compare/v1.1.11...v1.1.18)

### Introducing Graceful Node Shutdown (Alpha)

The `GracefulNodeShutdown` feature is now in Alpha. This allows kubelet to be aware of node system shutdowns, enabling graceful termination of pods during a system shutdown. This feature can be [enabled through feature gate](https://docs.k8s.io/concepts/architecture/nodes/#graceful-node-shutdown).

### Runtime log sanitation

* fuse daemons for GlusterFS and CephFS are now run in their own systemd scope when Kubernetes runs on a system with systemd. ([#49640](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/49640), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))