- Introduces extension point for external feedback on pod readiness.
kubernetes/kubernetes: [#74434](http://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74434),
kubernetes/enhancements: [#580](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/580) [[kep](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/sig-network/580-pod-readiness-gates/README.md)]

Kubeadm: Automate certificate copy between control planes in HA setups

- github.com/chzyer/logex: [v1.1.10](https://github.com/chzyer/logex/tree/v1.1.10)
- github.com/chzyer/readline: [2972be2](https://github.com/chzyer/readline/tree/2972be2)
- github.com/chzyer/test: [a1ea475](https://github.com/chzyer/test/tree/a1ea475)
- github.com/containerd/cgroups: [0dbf7f0](https://github.com/containerd/cgroups/tree/0dbf7f0)

- Remove prometheus cluster monitoring addon from kube-up ([#83442](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83442), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))
- SourcesReady provides the readiness of kubelet configuration sources such as apiserver update readiness. ([#81344](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81344), [@zouyee](https://github.com/zouyee))

	setGlobalInternodeInterface(ctxt.Interface)

	globalTCPOptions = xhttp.TCPOptions{
		UserTimeout: int(ctxt.UserTimeout.Milliseconds()),
		// FIXME: Bring this back when we have valid way to handle deadlines
		//		DriveOPTimeout: globalDriveConfig.GetOPTimeout,
		Interface:   ctxt.Interface,
		SendBufSize: ctxt.SendBufSize,
		RecvBufSize: ctxt.RecvBufSize,
		IdleTimeout: ctxt.IdleTimeout,
	}

        // Wait for server to be ready - with proper error handling for CI environments
        try {
            waitForServerReady();
        } catch (RuntimeException e) {
            log.warn("SMB server readiness check failed: {}", e.getMessage());
            // In CI environments or when Docker is not properly set up, skip the tests instead of failing

- [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

specified) is `1s` which may be too small for some exec probes. Ensure that pods relying on this behavior are updated to correctly handle probe timeouts. See [configure probe](https://docs.k8s.io/tasks/configure-pod-container/configure-liveness-readiness-startup-probes/#configure-probes) section of the documentation for more details.

  - This change in behavior may be unexpected for some clusters and can be disabled by turning off the `ExecProbeTimeout` feature gate. This gate will be...

## Changelog since v1.16.0

### Other notable changes

* Limit the body length of exec readiness/liveness probes. remote CRIs and Docker shim read a max of 16MB output of which the exec probe itself inspects 10kb. ([#82514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82514), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- Removed `/livez` livezchecks for KMS v1 and v2 to ensure KMS health does not cause `kube-apiserver` restart. KMS health checks are still in place as a healthz and readiness checks. ([#120583](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120583), [@ritazh](https://github.com/ritazh))

* Skip safe to detach check if node API object no longer exists ([#30737](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30737), [@saad-ali](https://github.com/saad-ali))
* Nodecontroller doesn't flip readiness on pods if kubeletVersion < 1.2.0 ([#30828](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/30828), [@bprashanth](https://github.com/bprashanth))