* Add hugepages monitoring support
    * Fix incorrect CPU usage metrics with 4.7 kernel
    * Add tmpfs monitoring support
* Support for Huge pages in empty_dir volume plugin ([#50072](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50072), [@squall0gd](https://github.com/squall0gd))
    * [Huge pages](https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt) can now be used with empty dir volume plugin.

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The RuntimeClass alpha feature enables a node to surface multiple runtime options to support a variety of workload types.  Examples include native linux containers, and “sandboxed” containers that isolate the container from the host kernel.

- Add --permit-address-sharing flag to `kube-apiserver` to listen with `SO_REUSEADDR`. While allowing to listen on wildcard IPs like 0.0.0.0 and specific IPs in parallel, it avoids waiting for the kernel to release socket in `TIME_WAIT` state, and hence, considerably reducing `kube-apiserver` restart times under certain conditions. ([#93861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93861), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- Kubelet: a configuration file specified via `--config` is now loaded with strict deserialization,...

- SCTP support in API objects (Pod, Service, NetworkPolicy) is now GA.
  Note that this has no effect on whether SCTP is enabled on nodes at the kernel level,
  and note that some cloud platforms and network plugins do not support SCTP traffic. ([#95566](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95566), [@danwinship](https://github.com/danwinship)) [SIG Apps and Network]

- Handle Windows named pipes in host mounts. ([#69484](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/69484), [@ddebroy](https://github.com/ddebroy))
- Fixed inconsistency in windows kernel proxy when updating HNS policy. ([#68923](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68923), [@delulu](https://github.com/delulu))

##  External Dependencies

- kubeadm will now not fail preflight checks when running on >= 5.0 Linux kernel ([#74355](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74355), [@brb](https://github.com/brb))

  * Upgrade Node Problem Detector to v0.4.1. New features added:

    * Add /dev/kmsg support for kernel log parsing. ([#112](https://github.com/kubernetes/node-problem-detector/pull/112), [@euank](https://github.com/euank))

* Get windows kernel version directly from registry rather than windows.getVersion(). ([#58498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58498), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))