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* [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)]

  * Passed all the Kubernetes 1.7 end-to-end conformance test suites.

- Adding `--restart-kubelet` flag on E2E Node test suite ([#97028](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/97028), [@knabben](https://github.com/knabben)) [SIG Node and Testing]
- Adds feature gate `KubeletInUserNamespace` which enables support for running kubelet in a user namespace.

providers today. This involved auditing the cloud provider APIs for anything that should be deprecated as well as adding changes where necessary. In addition, SIG Cloud Provider has begun exploratory work around having a “cloud provider” e2e test suite which can be used to test common cloud provider functionalities with resources such as nodes and load balancers.

We are also continuing our long running effort to extract all the existing cloud providers that live in k8s.io/kubernetes...

* etcd3: avoid unnecessary decoding in etcd3 client  ([#34435](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34435), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))
* etcd3: fix suite ([#32477](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/32477), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))



# v1.4.4

    *   Make crictl command more user friendly and add more subcommands.
    *   Integrate with CRI verbose option to provide extra debug information.
    *   Update CRI to kubernetes v1.9.
    *   Bug fixes in validation test suites.
*   [beta] [cri-containerd](https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/cri-containerd): CRI implementation for containerd is now v1.0.0-beta.0, [[@Random-Liu](https://github.com/Random-Liu)]

- Total test spec is now available by `ProgressReporter`, it will be reported before test suite got executed. ([#114417](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114417), [@chendave](https://github.com/chendave))

- For external storage e2e test suite, update external driver, to pick snapshot provisioner from VolumeSnapshotClass, when a VolumeSnapshotClass is explicitly provided as an input. ([#90878](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90878), [@saikat-royc](https://github.com/saikat-royc))...

- Refactored `test/e2e/framework` so that the core framework is smaller. Optional functionality like resource monitoring, log size monitoring, metrics gathering and debug information dumping must be imported by specific e2e test suites. Init packages are provided which can be imported to re-enable the functionality that traditionally was in the core framework. If you have code that no longer compiles because of this PR, you can use the script [from a commit message](https://git...

- The `GetAllocatableResources` podresources API endpoint is now GA. ([#118973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118973), [@ffromani](https://github.com/ffromani))
- The `NetworkPolicyLegacy` test suite (deprecated in `v1.21`) has now officially been removed in favor of the new table driven e2e tests. ([#118915](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118915), [@astoycos](https://github.com/astoycos))