### Staging Repositories

- The CRI API is now available in the `k8s.io/cri-api` staging repository. ([#75531](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75531), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

- Updated the CRI-O socket path, so users who configure kubelet to use a location like `/run/crio/crio.sock` don't see strange behaviour from CRI stats provider. ([#118704](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118704), [@dgl](https://github.com/dgl))

- Kubeadm: Switched kubeadm to start using the CRI client library instead of shelling out of the `crictl` binary
  for actions against a CRI endpoint. The kubeadm deb/rpm packages will continue to install the `cri-tools`
  package for one more release, but in you must adapt your scripts to install `crictl` manually from
  https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cri-tools/releases or a different location.
  

  - [alpha] Introducing the v1alpha1 CRI API to allow pluggable container runtimes; an experimental docker-CRI integration is ready for testing and feedback. ([docs](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/sig-node/container-runtime-interface.md)) ([kubernetes/features#54](https://github.com/...

  - `PodStatus.ResourcesAllocated` describes node resources allocated to Pod.
  - `PodStatus.Resources` describes node resources applied to running containers by CRI.
  - `UpdateContainerResources` CRI API now supports both Linux and Windows. ([#102884](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102884), [@vinaykul](https://github.com/vinaykul))

  - Different configuration types can be supplied all in the same file separated by `---`.
- Improved CRI handling
  - crictl is no longer required in docker-only setups.
  - Better detection of installed CRI.
  - Better output for image pull errors.
- Improved air-gapped and offline support

* If a pod has a running instance, the stats of its previously terminated instances will not show up in the kubelet summary stats any more for CRI runtimes like containerd and cri-o. ([#77426](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/77426), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))

- Bumped `KubeletCgroupDriverFromCRI` to GA and add metric to track out-of-support CRI implementations. ([#133157](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/133157), [@haircommander](https://github.com/haircommander)) [SIG Node and Testing]

 - Kubeadm: the flag `--cri-socket` is no longer allowed in a mixture with the flag `--config`. Please use the kubeadm configuration for setting the CRI socket for a node using `{Init|Join}Configuration.nodeRegistration.criSocket`. ([#101600](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101600), [@KofClubs](https://github.com/KofClubs))

- Moved `k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/cri/streaming` package to `k8s.io/kubelet/pkg/cri/streaming`. ([#118253](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118253), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG Node, Release and Security]