- Fixed CSI `PersistentVolumes` to allow Secrets names longer than 63 characters. ([#114776](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/114776), [@jsafrane](https://github.com/jsafrane))

### Failing Test

- Escape the special characters like `[`, `]` and ` ` that exist in vsphere windows path ([#98830](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98830), [@liyanhui1228](https://github.com/liyanhui1228)) [SIG Storage and Windows]

till you come to the end:  then stop.'

  These were the verses the White Rabbit read:--

        `They told me you had been to her,
          And mentioned me to him:
        She gave me a good character,
          But said I could not swim.

        He sent them word I had not gone
          (We know it to be true):
        If she should push the matter on,
          What would become of you?

* Resolves regression generating informers for packages whose names contain `.` characters ([#82410](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82410), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita))

## Changelog since v1.18.16

## Changes by Kind

### Failing Test

- Fix handing special characters in the volume path on Windows ([#99138](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99138), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong)) [SIG Storage]

### Bug or Regression

- Limit vSphere volume name to 63 characters long. ([#100404](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/100404), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

- Volume mount cleanup now considers only plugin directory and not the entire kubelet root ([#112607](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112607), [@mattcary](https://github.com/mattcary))
- `kubectl` now escapes terminal special characters in output. This fixes CVE-2021-25743.
   ([#112553](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/112553), [@dgl](https://github.com/dgl))

### Other (Cleanup or Flake)

    <_comment>Based on TIKA-2469, we've added a heuristic/wild guess that the first 10 chars</_comment>
    <_comment>after the length byte should be \x00 or a non-control character.</_comment>
    <magic priority="80">
      <match value="(?s)^([\\x05-\\x0F])[\\x00\\x20-\\x7E]{10}.{43}\\1\x00" type="regex" offset="0"/>
    </magic>
  </mime-type>
  <mime-type type="application/x-ms-nls">

## Changelog since v1.20.4

## Changes by Kind

### Failing Test

- Fix handing special characters in the volume path on Windows ([#99008](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99008), [@yujuhong](https://github.com/yujuhong)) [SIG Storage]

* 📝 Update docs for handling HTTP Basic Auth with `secrets.compare_digest()` to account for non-ASCII characters. PR [#3536](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/3536) by [@lewoudar](https://github.com/lewoudar).