- Kubeadm: handled the removal of dockershim related flags for new kubeadm clusters. If kubelet <1.24 is on the host, kubeadm >=1.24 can continue using the built-in dockershim in the kubelet if the user passes the `{Init|Join}Configuration.nodeRegistration.criSocket` value in the kubeadm configuration to be equal to `unix:///var/run/dockershim.sock` on Unix or `npipe:////./pipe/dockershim` on Windows. If kubelet version >=1.24 is on the host, kubeadm >=1.24 will...

- Kubeadm: perform additional dockershim cleanup. Treat all container runtimes as remote by using the flag "--container-runtime=remote", given dockershim was removed in 1.24 and given kubeadm 1.25 supports a kubelet version of 1.24 and 1.25. The flag "--network-plugin" will no longer be used for new clusters. Stop cleaning up the following dockershim related directories on "kubeadm reset": "/var/lib/dockershim", "/var/runkubernetes", "/var/lib/cni" ([#110022](https://...

* GCE: provide an option to disable docker's live-restore on COS/ubuntu ([#55260](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55260), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))
* Fix hyperkube kubelet --experimental-dockershim ([#55250](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55250), [@ivan4th](https://github.com/ivan4th))

- Kubeadm: removed the usage of the `--container-runtime=remote` flag for the kubelet during kubeadm init/join/upgrade. The flag value `remote` had been the only possible value since `dockershim` was removed from the kubelet. ([#112000](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112000), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))