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Converting a slice of bytes to a string type yields
a string whose successive bytes are the elements of the slice.

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string([]byte{'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', '\xc3', '\xb8'})   // "hellø"
string([]byte{})                                     // ""
string([]byte(nil))                                  // ""

type bytes []byte
string(bytes{'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', '\xc3', '\xb8'})    // "hellø"

- Increase timeout for pod lifecycle test to reach pod status=ready ([#96691](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96691), [@hh](https://github.com/hh))
- Increased `CSINodeIDMaxLength` from 128 bytes to 192 bytes. ([#98753](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98753), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227))

  termination message log file. The termination message file is now properly
  readable for end users and has a maximum size (4k bytes) to prevent abuse.
  Each pod may have up to 12k bytes of termination messages before the contents
  of each will be truncated.
* Do not delete pod objects until all its compute resource footprint has been
  reclaimed.

- Increased `CSINodeIDMaxLength` from 128 bytes to 192 bytes. Prepare to increase the length limit to 256 bytes in 1.23 release. ([#101256](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101256), [@Jiawei0227](https://github.com/Jiawei0227))

* Added configurable etcd quota backend bytes in GCE. ([#59259](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59259), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- github.com/go-gl/glfw: [e6da0ac](https://github.com/go-gl/glfw/tree/e6da0ac)
- github.com/gogo/googleapis: [v1.4.1](https://github.com/gogo/googleapis/tree/v1.4.1)
- github.com/golangplus/bytes: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/golangplus/bytes/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/golangplus/fmt: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/golangplus/fmt/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/golangplus/testing: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/golangplus/testing/tree/v1.0.0)

- github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4: [v4.2.0](https://github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v4/tree/v4.2.0)
- github.com/golang/snappy: [v0.0.3](https://github.com/golang/snappy/tree/v0.0.3)
- github.com/golangplus/bytes: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/golangplus/bytes/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/golangplus/fmt: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/golangplus/fmt/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2: [v2.1.4](https://github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2/tree/v2.1.4)

- Fixed graceful apiserver shutdown to not drop outgoing bytes before the process terminates. ([#72970](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72970), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

### Apps

- Updated runc to 1.1.1 ([#109104](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/109104), [@kolyshkin](https://github.com/kolyshkin))
- Updated the error message to not use the `--max-resource-write-bytes` & `--json-patch-max-copy-bytes` string. ([#106875](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106875), [@warmchang](https://github.com/warmchang))

- The maximum length of the `CSINode` id field has increased to 256 bytes to match the CSI spec. ([#104160](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104160), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))