- Windows runtime endpoints is now switched to `npipe:////./pipe/dockershim` from `tcp://localhost:3735`. ([#69516](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69516), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* kubeadm will now pull required images during preflight checks if it cannot find them on the system. ([#64105](h...

* Replace glog.Fatals with fmt.Errorfs ([#38175](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38175), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))
* Pipe get options to storage ([#37693](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/37693), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Setting the `status.loadBalancer` of a Service whose `spec.type` is not `LoadBalancer` was previously allowed, but any update to the `metadata` or `spec` would wipe that field. Setting this field is no longer permitted unless `spec.type` is  `LoadBalancer`.  In the very unlikely event that this has unexpected impact, you can enable the `AllowServiceLBStatusOnNonLB` feature gate, which will restore the previous...

- Kubeadm: default the kubeadm configuration to the containerd socket (Unix: `unix:///var/run/containerd/containerd.sock`, Windows: `npipe:////./pipe/containerd-containerd`) instead of the one for Docker. If the `Init|JoinConfiguration.nodeRegistration.criSocket` field is empty during cluster creation and multiple sockets are found on the host always throw an error and ask the user to specify which...

- Kubeadm: allow passing the flag `--log-file` if `--config` is passed. If you wish to log to a file you must also pass `--logtostderr=false` or `--alsologtostderr=true`. Alternatively you can pipe to a file using "kubeadm ... | tee ...". ([#101449](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101449), [@CaoDonghui123](https://github.com/CaoDonghui123))