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<p>
A <code>Pointer</code> is a <a href="#Pointer_types">pointer type</a> but a <code>Pointer</code>
value may not be <a href="#Address_operators">dereferenced</a>.
Any pointer or value of <a href="#Underlying_types">underlying type</a> <code>uintptr</code> can be
<a href="#Conversions">converted</a> to a type of underlying type <code>Pointer</code> and vice versa.

  The scheduling hints allowed the scheduler to retry scheduling a Pod that was previously rejected by the VolumeBinding plugin only if a new resource referenced by the plugin was created or an existing resource referenced by the plugin was updated. ([#124961](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/124961), [@bells17](https://github.com/bells17)) [SIG Scheduling and Storage]

     1. Be authorized to make the create or update API request
     2. Be allowed to bind the referenced role, either by already having all of the permissions contained in the referenced role, or by having the "bind" permission on the referenced role.

- Fixed the bug where Events failed to be created when the referenced object name was not a valid Event name. Now, a UUID is used as the name instead of the referenced object name and the timestamp suffix. ([#129790](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/129790), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

- Fixed a Windows kube-proxy (winkernel) issue where stale `RemoteEndpoints`
  remained when a Deployment was referenced by multiple Services due to premature
  clearing of the `terminatedEndpoints` map. ([#135146](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/135146), [@princepereira](https://github.com/princepereira)) [SIG Network and Windows]

- kube-apiserver: The `ResourceQuota` admission plugin configuration referenced from `--admission-control-config-file` admission config has been promoted to...

### Cluster Lifecycle

- kubeadm: fixed nil pointer dereference caused by a bug in url parsing ([#74454](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74454), [@bart0sh](https://github.com/bart0sh))

- Fixes problem where invalid selector on `PodDisruptionBudget` leads to a nil pointer dereference that causes the Controller manager to crash loop. ([#98750](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98750), [@mortent](https://github.com/mortent))

- Fix missing "apiVersion" for "involvedObject" in Events for Nodes. ([#87537](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87537), [@uthark](https://github.com/uthark)) [SIG Apps and Node]
- Fix nil pointer dereference in azure cloud provider ([#85975](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85975), [@ldx](https://github.com/ldx)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

  in the time specified by `--legacy-service-account-token-clean-up-period` (defaulting
  to one year), **and are** referenced from the `.secrets` list of a ServiceAccount
  object, **and are not** referenced from pods. ([#115554](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115554), [@yt2985](https://github.com/yt2985))