- CRI now supports a "runtime_handler" field for RunPodSandboxRequest, used for selecting the runtime configuration to run the sandbox with (alpha feature). ([#67518](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67518), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))

- Fixed kubelet creating extra sandbox for pods with RestartPolicyOnFailure after all containers succeeded ([#92614](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/92614), [@tnqn](https://github.com/tnqn)) [SIG Node and Testing]

* Support copying "options" in resolv.conf into pod sandbox when dnsPolicy is Default ([#54773](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/54773), [@phsiao](https://github.com/phsiao))

- Fix a bug where kubelet would not retry pod sandbox creation when the restart policy of the pod is Never ([#79451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79451), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

- `kubeadm`: now shows a warning message when detecting that the sandbox image of the container runtime is inconsistent with that used by kubeadm ([#115610](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115610), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))

* Remove pids cgroup controller requirement when related feature gates are disabled ([#79073](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79073), [@rafatio](https://github.com/rafatio))
* Fix a bug where kubelet would not retry pod sandbox creation when the restart policy of the pod is Never ([#79451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79451), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

- Updated pause image to version 3.5, which now runs per default as pseudo user and group `65535:65535`. This does not have any effect on remote container runtimes like CRI-O and containerd, which setup the pod sandbox user and group on their own. ([#100292](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100292), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

* Fix a bug where kubelet would not retry pod sandbox creation when the restart policy of the pod is Never ([#79451](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79451), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

* Add --request-timeout to kube-apiserver to make global request timeout configurable. ([#51415](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51415), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))
* Fix credentials providers for docker sandbox image. ([#51870](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/51870), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- Fix nil VMSS name when setting service to auto mode ([#97366](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97366), [@nilo19](https://github.com/nilo19)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix privileged config of Pod Sandbox which was previously ignored. ([#96877](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96877), [@xeniumlee](https://github.com/xeniumlee))