- The new feature gate "SidecarContainers" is now available. This feature introduces sidecar containers, a new type of init container that starts before other containers but remains running for the full duration of the pod's lifecycle and will not block pod termination. ([#116429](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116429), [@gjkim42](https://github.com/gjkim42)) [SIG API Machinery, Apps, Node, Scheduling and Testing]

* [alpha] [cri-containerd](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-containerd): CRI implementation for containerd is now v1.0.0-alpha.0, [[@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu)]

  * Feature complete. Support the full CRI API defined in v1.8.
  * Pass all the CRI validation tests and regular node end-to-end tests.
  * An ansible playbook is provided to configure a Kubernetes cri-containerd cluster with kubeadm.

- Fixed `kubectl events` not filtering events by `GroupVersion` for resources with a full name. ([#120119](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120119), [@Ithrael](https://github.com/Ithrael))