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      return null; // :: must expand to at least one '0'
    }
    if (!hasSkip && delimiterCount + 1 != IPV6_PART_COUNT) {
      return null; // Incorrect number of parts
    }

    ByteBuffer rawBytes = ByteBuffer.allocate(2 * IPV6_PART_COUNT);
    try {
      // Iterate through the parts of the ip string.
      // Invariant: start is always the beginning of a hextet, or the second ':' of the skip
      // sequence "::"

* Applies zone labels to vSphere Volumes and honors allowedTopologies when provisioning. ([#74654](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74654), [@subramanian-neelakantan](https://github.com/subramanian-neelakantan))
* Re-issue Allocate grpc calls before starting a container that requests device-plugin resources if the cached state is missing. ([#73824](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73824), [@jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))

- New feature gate, ServiceIPStaticSubrange, to enable the new strategy in the Service IP allocators, so the IP range is subdivided and dynamic allocated ClusterIP addresses for Services are allocated preferently from the upper range. ([#106792](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/106792), [@aojea](https://github.com/aojea))

* Address a bug which allowed the horizontal pod autoscaler to allocate `desiredReplicas` > `maxReplicas` in certain instances. ([#53690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53690), [@mattjmcnaughton](https://github.com/mattjmcnaughton))

* Address a bug which allowed the horizontal pod autoscaler to allocate `desiredReplicas` > `maxReplicas` in certain instances. ([#53690](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53690), [@mattjmcnaughton](https://github.com/mattjmcnaughton))

* Kubelet won't evict a static pod with priority `system-node-critical` upon resource pressure. ([#74222](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74222), [@Huang-Wei](https://github.com/Huang-Wei))
* Re-issue Allocate grpc calls before starting a container that requests device-plugin resources if the cached state is missing. ([#73824](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73824), [@jiayingz](https://github.com/jiayingz))

//     length. For example, make([]int, 0, 10) allocates an underlying array
//     of size 10 and returns a slice of length 0 and capacity 10 that is
//     backed by this underlying array.
//   - Map: An empty map is allocated with enough space to hold the
//     specified number of elements. The size may be omitted, in which case
//     a small starting size is allocated.

- During device plugin allocation, resources requested by the pod can only be allocated if the device plugin has registered itself to kubelet AND healthy devices are present on the node to be allocated. If these conditions are not sattsfied, the pod would fail with `UnexpectedAdmissionError` error. ([#117738](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117738), [@swatisehgal](https://g...

    private final int pointer;

    /**
     * Constructs a new PacUnicodeString instance.
     *
     * @param length the actual length of the string in bytes
     * @param maxLength the maximum allocated length for the string in bytes
     * @param pointer the pointer/offset to the string data
     */
    public PacUnicodeString(final short length, final short maxLength, final int pointer) {
        this.length = length;