- kubeadm now automatically sets the `--pod-infra-container-image` flag when starting the kubelet.

### SIG IBM Cloud

### Native. C and ObjC Import

- [`KT-59642`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-59642) Remove ability to import forward declaration by library package name
- [`KT-59643`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-59643) K2: Disable merging of forward declaration with real declaration class

## Dependencies

### Added

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

### API Change

images. The old registry (`k8s.gcr.io`) will continue to be supported for the foreseeable future, but the new name should perform better because it frontends equivalent mirrors in other clouds.  Please point your clusters to the new registry going forward. \n\nAdmission/Policy integrations that have an allowlist of registries need to include `registry.k8s.io` alongside `k8s.gcr.io`.\nAir-gapped environments and image garbage-collection configurations will need to update to pre-pull and preserve required...

- Kubectl port-forward service will now properly exit when the attached pod dies (#103526, @brianpursley) [SIG API Machinery]
- Kubelet: fixes a file descriptor leak in log rotation (#106382, @rphillips) [SIG Node]

kube-dns addon optional so that users can deploy their own DNS solution. ([#57113](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57113), [@wwwtyro](https://github.com/wwwtyro))

* `kubectl port-forward` now supports specifying a service to port forward to, as in `kubectl port-forward svc/myservice 8443:443`. Additional support has also been added for looking up targetPort for a service, as well as enabling using svc/name to select a pod. ([#59809](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59809),...

    - kubeadm: implemented CRI detection for Windows worker nodes ([#78053](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78053), [@ksubrmnn](https://github.com/ksubrmnn))

### Instrumentation