This release contains changes that address the following vulnerabilities:

### CVE-2023-5528: Insufficient input sanitization in in-tree storage plugin leads to privilege escalation on Windows nodes

it is impossible to change the contents of a string.
The predeclared string type is <code>string</code>;
it is a <a href="#Type_definitions">defined type</a>.
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The length of a string <code>s</code> can be discovered using
the built-in function <a href="#Length_and_capacity"><code>len</code></a>.
The length is a compile-time constant if the string is a constant.

This release contains changes that address the following vulnerabilities:

### CVE-2024-3177: Bypassing mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin

This release contains changes that address the following vulnerabilities:

### CVE-2024-3177: Bypassing mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin

                  number and cluster size to projectcalico.org. Logs warnings returned
                  by the usage server. For example, if a significant security vulnerability
                  has been discovered in the version of Calico being used. [Default:
                  true]'
                type: boolean
              usageReportingInitialDelay:

This release contains changes that address the following vulnerabilities:

### CVE-2024-3177: Bypassing mountable secrets policy imposed by the ServiceAccount admission plugin