- Kubeadm: fix an issue with the kube-proxy container env. variables ([#84888](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84888), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))
- Utilize diagnostics tool to dump GKE windows test logs ([#83517](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83517), [@YangLu1031](https://github.com/YangLu1031))

* kubernetes now packages cri-tools (crictl) in addition to all the other kubeadm tools in a deb and rpm. ([#64836](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64836), [@chuckha](https://github.com/chuckha))

- Fixed bug in reflector that couldn't recover from `Too large resource version` errors with API servers before 1.17.0. ([#115093](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115093), [@xuzhenglun](https://github.com/xuzhenglun))

- Update cri-tools to [v1.20.0](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/releases/tag/v1.20.0) ([#97967](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97967), [@rajibmitra](https://github.com/rajibmitra)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

#### **Container Runtime**
*   [alpha] [cri-tools](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-tools): CLI and validation tools for CRI is now v1.0.0-alpha.0. This release mainly focuses on UX improvements. [[@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)]
    *   Make crictl command more user friendly and add more subcommands.

### Node

* Summary of Container Runtime changes:
  * [beta] [cri-tools](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-tools): CLI and validation tools for CRI is now v1.0.0-beta.0. This release mainly focused on UX improvements. [@feiskyer]

- The following deprecated metrics are removed, please convert to the corresponding metrics:

upgrading, and deleting clusters.

For the 1.8 release, SIG Cluster Lifecycle continued to focus on expanding the
capabilities of kubeadm, which is both a user-facing tool to manage clusters
and a building block for higher-level provisioning systems. Starting
with the 1.8 release, kubeadm supports a new upgrade command and includes alpha
support for self hosting the cluster control plane.

- Updated `cri-tools` to `v1.27.0`. ([#117545](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117545), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))
- Updated `setcap` image to debian bookworm v1.0.0. ([#119247](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119247), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert))

- Runtime handler and Windows npipe protocol are not supported yet in crictl v1.11.x. Those features will be supported in crictl [v1.12.0](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/releases/tag/v1.12.0), together with Kubernetes v1.12.1.

## Major Themes

### SIG API Machinery