- Added an e2e test to verify that the cluster is not vulnerable to CVE-2021-29923 when using Services with IPs with leading zeros, note that this test is a necessary but not sufficient condition, all the components in the clusters that consume IPs addresses from the APIs MUST interpret them as decimal or discard them. ([#107552](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/107552), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

Node.  There is an open PR ([#48189](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48189)) to resolve this issue, but as this issue also exists in 1.6, and as we do not wish to risk release stability by merging it directly prior to a release without sufficient testing, we have decided to defer merging the PR until the next point release for each minor version ([#48190](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48190)).

* Protobuf serialization does not distinguish between `[]` and `null`....

* vSphere cloud provider: vSphere cloud provider code refactoring ([#49164](https://github.com/kubernetes/kub...

sliceForAppend takes a slice and a requested number of bytes. It returns a // slice with the contents of the given slice followed by that many bytes and a // second slice that aliases into it and contains only the extra bytes. If the // original slice has sufficient capacity then no allocation is performed. func sliceForAppend(in []byte, n int) (head, tail []byte) { if total := len(in) + n; cap(in) >= total { head = in[:total] } else { head = make([]byte, total) copy(head, in) } tail = head[len(in):] return...