- Fixed a 1.28 regression around restarting init containers in the right order relative to normal containers ([#120440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120440), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG Node and Testing]

For more information, see [#53288](https://issue.k8s.io/53288).

* `kubeadm init` and `kubeadm join` invocations on newly installed systems can encounter a `/var/lib/kubelet is not empty` message during pre-flight checks that prevents setup. If this is the only pre-flight failure, it can be safely ignored with `--skip-preflight-checks`.

For more information, see [#53356](https://issue.k8s.io/53356#issuecomment-333748618).

- Fixed a bug around restarting init containers in the right order relative to normal containers with `SidecarContainers` feature enabled. ([#120269](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120269), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42))

- Kubectl: fixed a bug where `kubectl convert` did not pick the right API version ([#112700](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112700), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))
- Kubelet now cleans up the Node's cloud node IP annotation correctly if you