- kubeadm: remove misleading error message regarding image pulling ([#66658](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66658), [@dixudx](https://github.com/dixudx))

- Fixed bug to correctly report `ErrRegistryUnavailable` on pulling container images for remote CRI runtimes. ([#117612](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117612), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG Node]

*More Instructions coming soon*

## Provider-specific Notes

* AWS
  * Support for ap-northeast-2 region (Seoul)
  * Allow cross-region image pulling with ECR
  * More reliable kube-up/kube-down
  * Enable ICMP Type 3 Code 4 for ELBs
  * ARP caching fix
  * Use /dev/xvdXX names
  * ELB:
    * ELB proxy protocol support 

- Bug fix: Windows Kubelet nodes will now correctly search the default location for Docker credentials (`%USERPROFILE%\.docker\config.json`) when pulling images from a private registry. (https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/containers/images/#configuring-nodes-to-authenticate-to-a-private-registry) ([#78528](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78528), [@bclau](https://github.com/bclau))

- Kubelet: fix recording issue when pulling image did finish ([#114904](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114904), [@TommyStarK](https://github.com/TommyStarK)) [SIG Node]

* Add a label which prevents a node from being added to a cloud load balancer ([#53146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53146), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))
* Fixes an issue pulling pod specs referencing unqualified images from docker.io on centos/fedora/rhel ([#53161](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53161), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

Other notable changes include:
* CoreDNS replaces kube-dns as the default DNS provider

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

- Kubelet now defaults to pulling the pause image from registry.k8s.io ([#114341](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114341), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG Node]

## Dependencies

### Added
_Nothing has changed._

- kubeadm: fixed ignoring errors when pulling control plane images ([#80529](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/80529), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))

  amd64 binary instead of the go-runner that matches that architecture.
  
  This commit explicitly sets the '--platform=linux/${arch}' to ensure
  we're pulling the correct go-runner arch from the manifest list.
  
  Before:
  `FROM ${base_image}`
  
  After: