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- Pod status updates faster when reacting on probe results. The first readiness probe will be called faster when startup probes succeeded, which will make Pod status as ready faster. ([#98376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98376), [@matthyx](https://github.com/matthyx))

- Kubelet: remove deprecated flag `--container-runtime` ([#114017](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114017), [@calvin0327](https://github.com/calvin0327)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Node]
- Kubelet: the deprecated `--master-service-namespace` flag is removed in v1.27 ([#116015](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116015), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu))