- Allow the CRI (and NRI) to block pod-level resizes. ([#137555](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/137555), [@natasha41575](https://github.com/natasha41575)) [SIG Node]
- Bump coredns to 1.14.2 ([#137605](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/137605), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Cluster Lifecycle]

- Kubeadm: Switched kubeadm to start using the CRI client library instead of shelling out of the `crictl` binary
  for actions against a CRI endpoint. The kubeadm deb/rpm packages will continue to install the `cri-tools`
  package for one more release, but in you must adapt your scripts to install `crictl` manually from
  https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/releases or a different location.
  

### Bug or Regression

		"/run/.containerenv",
	} {
		_, err = os.Stat(envfile)
		if err == nil {
			return true
		}
	}
	if osIsNotExist(err) {
		// if none of the files are present we may be running inside
		// CRI-O, Containerd etc..
		// Fallback to our container specific ENVs if they are set.
		return env.IsSet("MINIO_ACCESS_KEY_FILE")
	}

	// Log error, as we will not propagate it to caller
	internalLogIf(GlobalContext, err)

- Moved `k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/cri/streaming` package to `k8s.io/kubelet/pkg/cri/streaming`. ([#118253](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118253), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG Node, Release and Security]

  
  Starting with Kubernetes `v1.36`, `kubelet` might refuse to start if the CRI runtime does not support this feature. More information can be found at the [Kubernetes blog](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/09/12/kubernetes-v1-34-cri-cgroup-driver-lookup-now-ga/). ([#134906](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/134906), [@carlory](https://github.com/carlory))

- Bumped `KubeletCgroupDriverFromCRI` to GA and add metric to track out-of-support CRI implementations. ([#133157](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133157), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander)) [SIG Node and Testing]

   ([#121912](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121912), [@JoelSpeed](https://github.com/JoelSpeed))
- Allowed container runtimes to fix an image garbage collection bug by adding an `image_id` field to the CRI Container message.
   ([#123508](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123508), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

- Updated `cri-tools` to [v1.25.0(https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/releases/tag/v1.25.0) ([#112058](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112058), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

- kubeadm: if the `NodeLocalCRISocket` feature gate is enabled, remove the `kubeadm.alpha.kubernetes.io/cri-socket` annotation from a given node on `kubeadm upgrade`. ([#129279](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129279), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Testing]