- Kubeadm: if the user has customized their image repository via the kubeadm configuration, pass the custom pause image repository and tag to the kubelet via --pod-infra-container-image not only for Docker but for all container runtimes. This flag tells the kubelet that it should not garbage collect the image. ([#99476](https://github.com...

- [Unit tests](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/51540) added support for Windows
- [Conformance tests](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/108592) added support for Windows
- New repository created for [Windows Operational Readiness](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/windows-operational-readiness)

### Moved container registry service from k8s.gcr.io to registry.k8s.io

- Kubeadm: when using a custom image repository for CoreDNS kubeadm now will append the `coredns` image name instead of `coredns/coredns`, thus restoring the behaviour existing before the v1.21 release. Users who rely on nested folder for the coredns image should set the `clusterConfiguratio...

- `kubeadm`: fixed `nil` pointer when `etcd` member is already removed. ([#119753](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119753), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))
- `kubeadm`: fixed the bug where `--image-repository` flag is missing for some init
  phase sub-commands. ([#120072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120072), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

- Kubeadm: now supports image repository format validation. ([#112732](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112732), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))