- Kubeadm: perform additional dockershim cleanup. Treat all container runtimes as remote by using the flag "--container-runtime=remote", given dockershim was removed in 1.24 and given kubeadm 1.25 supports a kubelet version of 1.24 and 1.25. The flag "--network-plugin" will no longer be used for new clusters. Stop cleaning up the following dockershim related...

- Moved remote CRI implementation from kubelet to `k8s.io/cri-client` repository. ([#124634](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124634), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG Node, Release and Testing]

command line. For `non-kubeadm` clusters, users must manually remove this flag from their `kubelet` configuration to prevent startup failures before upgrading `kubelet`. For `kubeadm` clusters, if users pass extra arguments to the `kubelet` like `--pod-infra-container-image`, it will be written to the `kubelet` env file during the `init` phase. `kubeadm` does not remove it during the `init` or `join` phase, so users must manually remove it from `extraArgs` in the `kubelet` configuration file. ([#...

the kubeadm configuration to be equal to `unix:///var/run/dockershim.sock` on Unix or `npipe:////./pipe/dockershim` on Windows. If kubelet version >=1.24 is on the host, kubeadm >=1.24 will treat all container runtimes as "remote" using the kubelet flags `--container-runtime=remote --container-runtime-endpoint=scheme://some/path`. The special management for kubelet <1.24 will be removed in kubeadm 1.25. ([#106973](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106973), [@neolit123](https://github.com/neolit123))...

- Limit the body length of exec readiness/liveness probes. remote CRIs and Docker shim read a max of 16MB output of which the exec probe itself inspects 10kb. ([#82514](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82514), [@dims](https://github.com/dims))

* Remove stale volumes if endpoint/svc creation fails. ([#35285](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/35285), [@humblec](https://github.com/humblec))
* add kubectl cp ([#34914](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34914), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

- Kubeadm: remove the usage of the --container-runtime=remote flag for the kubelet during kubeadm init/join/upgrade. The flag value "remote" has been the only possible value since dockershim was removed from the kubelet. ([#112000](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112000), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu)) [SIG...

- kubeadm: if the `NodeLocalCRISocket` feature gate is enabled, remove the `kubeadm.alpha.kubernetes.io/cri-socket` annotation from a given node on `kubeadm upgrade`. ([#129279](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129279), [@HirazawaUi](https://github.com/HirazawaUi)) [SIG Cluster Lifecycle and Testing]

- kube-controller-manager
  - The deprecated `--insecure-experimental-approve-all-kubelet-csrs-for-group` flag has been removed.
- kubelet

    - [DELETE operation in REST API](#delete-operation-in-rest-api)
  - [Action Required Before Upgrading](#action-required-before-upgrading)
- [optionally, remove the old secret](#optionally-remove-the-old-secret)
  - [Previous Releases Included in v1.4.0](#previous-releases-included-in-v140)
- [v1.4.0-beta.11](#v140-beta11)
  - [Downloads](#downloads-6)