* The new array contains nulls, even if the old array did not. If we wanted to be accurate, we
   * would declare a return type of `@Nullable T[]`. However, we've decided not to think too hard
   * about arrays for now, as they're a mess. (We previously discussed this in the review of
   * ObjectArrays, which is the main caller of this method.)
   */
  static <T extends @Nullable Object> T[] newArray(T[] reference, int length) {

    if (this::cache.isInitialized) {
      cache.delete()
    }
  }

  @Test
  fun corruptedCipher() {
    val response =
      testCorruptingCache {
        corruptMetadata {
          // mess with cipher suite
          it.replace("TLS_", "SLT_")
        }
      }

    assertThat(response.body.string()).isEqualTo("ABC.1") // cached
    assertThat(cache.requestCount()).isEqualTo(2)

ENV_BLOCKLIST="${ENV_BLOCKLIST:-^_\|^PATH=\|^GOPATH=\|^GOROOT=\|^SHELL=\|^EDITOR=\|^TMUX=\|^USER=\|^HOME=\|^PWD=\|^TERM=\|^RUBY_\|^GEM_\|^rvm_\|^SSH=\|^TMPDIR=\|^CC=\|^CXX=\|^MAKEFILE_LIST=}"

# Remove functions from the list of exported variables, they mess up with the `env` command.
for f in $(declare -F -x | cut -d ' ' -f 3);
do
  unset -f "${f}"
done

# Set conditional host mounts
CONDITIONAL_HOST_MOUNTS="${CONDITIONAL_HOST_MOUNTS:-} "

- DisableAvailabilitySetNodes is added to avoid VM list for VMSS clusters. It should only be used when vmType is "vmss" and all the nodes (including control plane nodes) are VMSS virtual machines. ([#87685](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87685), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

    # Now convert the arguments - kludge to limit ourselves to /bin/sh
    for arg do
        if
            case $arg in                                #(
              -*)   false ;;                            # don't mess with options #(
              /?*)  t=${arg#/} t=/${t%%/*}              # looks like a POSIX filepath
                    [ -e "$t" ] ;;                      #(
              *)    false ;;
            esac
        then

     *   lock.unlock();
     * }
     *
     * If we only held the int[] stripes, translating it on the fly to L's, the original locks might
     * be garbage collected after locking them, ending up in a huge mess.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // we carefully replaced all keys with their respective L's
    List<L> asStripes = (List<L>) result;
    return Collections.unmodifiableList(asStripes);
  }

- Fix invalid VMSS updates due to incorrect cache ([#89002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89002), [@ArchangelSDY](https://github.com/ArchangelSDY)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

   * covariant, would still permit a plain `T[]`) and return a plain `T[]`. But of course that would
   * require its own suppression, since it is also unsound. toArray(T[]) is just a mess from a
   * nullness perspective. The signature below at least has the virtue of being relatively simple.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("nullness")
  public final <T extends @Nullable Object> T[] toArray(T[] other) {

### Bug or Regression

- Avoid caching the Azure VMSS instances whose network profile is nil ([#100948](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100948), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

   * covariant, would still permit a plain `T[]`) and return a plain `T[]`. But of course that would
   * require its own suppression, since it is also unsound. toArray(T[]) is just a mess from a
   * nullness perspective. The signature below at least has the virtue of being relatively simple.
   */
  @SuppressWarnings("nullness")
  public final <T extends @Nullable Object> T[] toArray(T[] other) {