## Changelog since v1.3.8

### Other notable changes

* Test x509 intermediates correctly ([#34524](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/34524), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

                if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
                    log.debug("Have intermediate reply " + response);
                }

                if (first) {
                    final int credit = resp.getCredit();
                    if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
                        log.debug("Credit from intermediate " + credit);
                    }
                    this.credits.release(credit);

 * complete, some objects captured during the computation are closed.
 *
 * <p>A pipeline of {@code ClosingFuture}s is a tree of steps. Each step represents either an
 * asynchronously-computed intermediate value, or else an exception that indicates the failure or
 * cancellation of the operation so far. The only way to extract the value or exception from a step

common:windows --host_copt=-D_ENABLE_EXTENDED_ALIGNED_STORAGE

# Enable the runfiles symlink tree on Windows. This makes it possible to build
# the pip package on Windows without an intermediate data-file archive, as the
# build_pip_package script in its current form (as of Aug 2023) uses the
# runfiles symlink tree to decide what to put into the Python wheel.
startup --windows_enable_symlinks

   * array whose contents are initially non-null. The {@code @Nullable} annotation indicates that
   * this method will write nulls into the array during iteration.
   *
   * <p>This is mainly just to avoid the intermediate ArrayDeque in ConsumingQueueIterator.
   */
  private static <I extends Iterator<?>> Iterator<I> consumingForArray(@Nullable I... elements) {
    return new UnmodifiableIterator<I>() {
      int index = 0;