- Force deleted pods may fail to terminate until the kubelet is restarted when the container runtime returns an error during termination. We have strengthened testing for runtime failures and now perform a more rigorous reconciliation to ensure static pods (especially those that use fixed UIDs) are restarted.  As a side effect of these changes static pods will be restarted with lower...

- Fixed an issue in register-gen where imports for k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime and k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema were missing. ([#130392](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/130392), [@mrIncompetent](https://github.com/mrIncompetent)) [SIG API Machinery]

- github.com/opencontainers/runc: [v1.0.0-rc93 → v1.0.0-rc95](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/compare/v1.0.0-rc93...v1.0.0-rc95)
- github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec: [e6143ca → 1c3f411](https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/compare/e6143ca...1c3f411)
- golang.org/x/sys: a50acf3 → d19ff85
- sigs.k8s.io/apiserver-network-proxy/konnectivity-client: v0.0.15 → v0.0.19

### Removed

- Fixed an issue in register-gen where imports for k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime and k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema were missing. ([#129307](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129307), [@LionelJouin](https://github.com/LionelJouin)) [SIG API Machinery]

### **Node Components**
#### Container Runtime Interface

- Fix runtime cost estimation for x-int-or-string custom resource schemas with maximum lengths ([#132837](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132837), [@JoelSpeed](https:...

    - [Security Improvements for CSI Drivers (Alpha)](#security-improvements-for-csi-drivers-alpha)
    - [Introducing Graceful Node Shutdown (Alpha)](#introducing-graceful-node-shutdown-alpha)
    - [Runtime log sanitation](#runtime-log-sanitation)
    - [Pod resource metrics](#pod-resource-metrics)
    - [Introducing <code>RootCAConfigMap</code>](#introducing-rootcaconfigmap)

- github.com/opencontainers/runc: [v1.0.0-rc93 → v1.0.1](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/compare/v1.0.0-rc93...v1.0.1)
- github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec: [e6143ca → 1c3f411](https://github.com/opencontainers/runtime-spec/compare/e6143ca...1c3f411)
- github.com/opencontainers/selinux: [v1.8.0 → v1.8.2](https://github.com/opencontainers/selinux/compare/v1.8.0...v1.8.2)

    - [Node Components](#node-components)
      - [Autoscaling and Metrics](#autoscaling-and-metrics)
        - [Cluster Autoscaler](#cluster-autoscaler)
      - [Container Runtime Interface (CRI)](#container-runtime-interface-cri)
      - [kubelet](#kubelet)
    - [Auth](#auth-1)
    - [Cluster Lifecycle](#cluster-lifecycle-1)
      - [kubeadm](#kubeadm)
      - [kops](#kops)

- Ensure Azure availability zone is always in lower cases. ([#89722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89722), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix failing conformance when using docker container runtime w/ the docker/journald logging driver. [#87933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87933) ([#88586](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88586), [@jdef](https://github.com/jdef)) [SIG Node]