</p>

<pre>
s := make([]byte, 2, 4)

a0 := [0]byte(s)
a1 := [1]byte(s[1:])     // a1[0] == s[1]
a2 := [2]byte(s)         // a2[0] == s[0]
a4 := [4]byte(s)         // panics: len([4]byte) > len(s)

s0 := (*[0]byte)(s)      // s0 != nil
s1 := (*[1]byte)(s[1:])  // &amp;s1[0] == &amp;s[1]
s2 := (*[2]byte)(s)      // &amp;s2[0] == &amp;s[0]
s4 := (*[4]byte)(s)      // panics: len([4]byte) > len(s)

- Client-go: fixed potential data races retrying requests using a custom `io.Reader` body; with this fix, only requests with no body or with `string` / `[]byte` / `runtime.Object` bodies can be retried ([#113933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113933), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

- Fixes a 1.34 regression starting pods with environment variables with a value containing `$` followed by a multi-byte character ([#136491](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/136491), [@AutuSnow](https://github.com/AutuSnow)) [SIG Architecture and Node]

- Fixed a bug in the JSON frame reader that could cause it to retain a reference to the underlying array of the byte slice passed to read. ([#123620](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123620), [@benluddy](https://github.com/benluddy))

- Exposed `rest.DefaultServerUrlFor` function. ([#118055](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118055), [@timofurrer](https://g...

* Support loading UTF16 files if a byte-order-mark is present ([#39008](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39008), [@brendandburns](https://github.com/brendandburns))

- Allow CSI drivers to just run offline expansion tests (#102740, @gnufied) [SIG Storage and Testing]
- Bump klog to v2.9.0, fixing log lines that render as byte arrays (#105407, @ehashman) [SIG Architecture, CLI, Cloud Provider, Cluster Lifecycle, Instrumentation and Storage]
- Fix overriding logs files on reboot. (#105614, @rphillips) [SIG Node]

- Fixes a 1.34 regression starting pods with environment variables with a value containing `$` followed by a multi-byte character ([#136490](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/136490), [@AutuSnow](https://github.com/AutuSnow)) [SIG Architecture and Node]

* Fix a bug that pretty printer marshals empty byte or uint8 slice as null ([#81096](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/81096), [@roycaihw](https://github.com/roycaihw))

### Bug or Regression

- Client-go: fixes potential data races retrying requests using a custom io.Reader body; with this fix, only requests with no body or with string / []byte / runtime.Object bodies can be retried ([#113933](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/113933), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt)) [SIG API Machinery]