- 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

- 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]

### Feature

- Add architecture to the kernel version column in the `kubectl get node -owide` output. ([#132402](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132402), [@astraw99](https://github.com/astraw99)) [SIG CLI]

- 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))

- kubeadm: implement support for concurrent add/remove of stacked etcd members ([#79677](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/79677), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))
- kubeadm: support any Linux kernel version newer than 3.10 ([#81623](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81623), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))

- Changes behaviour of kube-proxy start; does not attempt to set specific `sysctl` values (which does not work in recent Kernel versions anymore in non-init namespaces), when the current sysctl values are already set higher. ([#103174](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/103174), [@Napsty](https://github.com/Napsty))

- Clarified the CFS quota as 100ms in the code comments and set the minimum `cpuCFSQuotaPeriod` to 1ms to match Linux kernel expectations. ([#112123](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112123), [@paskal](https://github.com/paskal))