### Documentation

- The command`kubectl debug` will now print a warning message when using the `--target` option since many container runtimes do not support this yet. ([#101074](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101074), [@verb](https://github.com/verb))

### Failing Test

  * Passed all the Kubernetes 1.7 end-to-end conformance test suites.
  * Verification against Kubernetes 1.8 is planned soon after the release.

* [stable] [frakti](https://github.com/kubernetes/frakti): CRI implementation for hypervisor-based runtimes is now v1.1. [[@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)]

- DRA: The scheduler plugin prevented abnormal filter runtimes by timing out after 10 seconds. This was configurable via the plugin configuration's `FilterTimeout`. Setting it to zero disabled the timeout and restored the behavior of Kubernetes <= 1.33. ([#132033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132033),...

Other notable changes include:
* CoreDNS replaces kube-dns as the default DNS provider
* Improved user experience for environments without a public internet connection and users using other CRI runtimes than Docker
* Support for structured configuration for the kubelet, which avoids the need to modify the systemd drop-in file
* Many improvements to the upgrade process and other bug fixes

### SIG Instrumentation

* Fix a bug that fluentd doesn't inject container logs for CRI container runtimes (containerd, cri-o etc.) into elasticsearch on GCE. ([#61818](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61818), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))

- Added new feature gate called `RuntimeClassInImageCriApi` to address `kubelet` changes needed for KEP 4216.
  Noteable changes:
  1. Populate new `RuntimeHandler` field in CRI's `ImageSpec` struct during image pulls from container runtimes.
  2. Pass `runtimeHandler` field in `RemoveImage()` call to container runtime in `kubelet`'s image garbage collection. ([#121456](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121456), [@kiashok](https://github.com/kiashok))

  * Remove the `--enable-cri` flag. CRI is now the default, and the only way to integrate with Kubelet for the container runtimes.([#45194](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/45194), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong))

    assertThat(peer.takeFrame().type).isEqualTo(Http2.TYPE_HEADERS)
    assertThat(peer.takeFrame().type).isEqualTo(Http2.TYPE_RST_STREAM)
  }

  /**
   * Confirm that the client times out if the server stalls after 3 bytes. After the timeout the
   * connection is still considered healthy while we await the degraded pong. When that doesn't
   * arrive the connection goes unhealthy.
   */

    *   Integration with cadvisor to provide better summary api support.
*   [stable] [cri-o](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o): CRI implementation for OCI-based runtimes is now v1.9. [[@mrunalp](https://github.com/mrunalp)]
    *   Pass all the Kubernetes 1.9 end-to-end test suites and now gating PRs as well
    *   Pass all the CRI validation tests

* The [`kubefed` federation bootstrap tool](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/federation/set-up-cluster-federation-kubefed/) has also graduated to beta.
* Interaction with container runtimes is now through the CRI interface, enabling easier integration of runtimes with the kubelet. Docker remains the default runtime via Docker-CRI (which moves to beta).
  * **WARNING:** A [known issue](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/44041)