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))

- With the `KubeletCgroupDriverFromCRI` feature gate enabled and sufficiently new version of a container
  runtime, kubelet automatically detects the cgroup driver config from the container runtime, eliminating

### SIG Node

* Kubelet now proxies container streaming between apiserver and container runtime. The connection between kubelet and apiserver is authenticated. Container runtime should change streaming server to serve on localhost, to make the connection between kubelet and container runtime local. ([#64006](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/64006), [@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu))

- 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),...

* Improve monitoring and error reporting

#### Container Runtime Interface (CRI)

* [alpha] Add a CRI validation test suite and CRI command-line tools. ([#292](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/292), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* [stable] [cri-o](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-o): CRI implementation for OCI-based runtimes [[@mrunalp](https://github.com/mrunalp)]

      - [**CoreDNS**](#coredns)
      - [**Other**](#other-4)
    - [**Node**](#node-3)
      - [**Pod API**](#pod-api)
      - [**Hardware Accelerators**](#hardware-accelerators)
      - [**Container Runtime**](#container-runtime)
      - [**Kubelet**](#kubelet)
        - [**Other**](#other-5)
    - [**OpenStack**](#openstack-2)
    - [**Scheduling**](#scheduling-2)
      - [**Hardware Accelerators**](#hardware-accelerators-1)

### Node

- The dockershim container runtime now accepts the `docker` runtime handler from a RuntimeClass. ([#78323](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/78323), [@tallclair](https://github.com/tallclair))

- Fixed a bug where init containers may fail to start due to a temporary container runtime failure. ([#127213](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/127213), [@SergeyKanzhelev](https://github.com/SergeyKanzhelev)) [SIG Node]

* 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))