- 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))

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- 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))

Major Component, or to implement a Standard Interface for which an
implementation is available to the public in source code form.  A
"Major Component", in this context, means a major essential component
(kernel, window system, and so on) of the specific operating system
(if any) on which the executable work runs, or a compiler used to
produce the work, or an object code interpreter used to run it.

- 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