- Faster mount detection for linux kernel 5.10+ using openat2 speeding up pod churn rates. On Kernel versions less 5.10, it will fallback to using the original way of detecting mount points i.e by parsing /proc/mounts. ([#109217](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109217), [@manugupt1](https://github.com/manugupt1))...

  
  When the feature gate is enabled, kubelet ignores errors that happens during setting the following sysctl values: `vm.overcommit_memory`, `vm.panic_on_oom`, `kernel.panic`, `kernel.panic_on_oops`, `kernel.keys.root_maxkeys`, `kernel.keys.root_maxbytes`. (These sysctl values for the host, not for the containers)
  
  kubelet also ignores an error during opening `/dev/kmsg`.

- 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]

- 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))

- Publishing kube-proxy metrics for Windows kernel-mode ([#106581](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106581), [@knabben](https://github.com/knabben))

  qualified domain name (FQDN) of a Pod is set as hostname of its containers. 
  In Linux containers, this means setting the FQDN in the hostname field of the 
  kernel (the nodename field of struct utsname).  In Windows containers, this

  gci-beta-55-8872-47-0:
  Date:           Nov 11, 2016
  Kernel:         ChromiumOS-4.4
  Kubernetes:     v1.4.5
  Docker:         v1.11.2
  Changelog (vs 55-8872-18-0)
    * Cherry-pick runc PR#608: Eliminate redundant parsing of mountinfo
    * Updated kubernetes to v1.4.5

  ([#33684](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/33684),
  [@fraenkel](https://github.com/fraenkel))
* Flag gate faster evictions based on node memory pressure using kernel memcg
  notifications - `--experimental-kernel-memcg-notification`.
  ([#38258](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38258),
  [@derekwaynecarr](https://github.com/derekwaynecarr))

   ([#123737](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123737), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))
- `readOnly` volumes now support recursive read-only mounts for kernel versions >= 5.12."
   ([#123180](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123180), [@AkihiroSuda](https://github.com/AkihiroSuda))
- cri-api: Implemented KEP-3857: Recursive Read-only (RRO) mounts.