implementation-specific and may be larger than the slice length.

<pre>
[]byte("hellø")             // []byte{'h', 'e', 'l', 'l', '\xc3', '\xb8'}
[]byte("")                  // []byte{}

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

[]myByte("world!")          // []myByte{'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd', '!'}
[]myByte(myString("🌏"))    // []myByte{'\xf0', '\x9f', '\x8c', '\x8f'}
</pre>
</li>

<li>

- 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))

- 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]

### 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]