- Updated an audit annotation key used by the `…/serviceaccounts/<name>/token` resource handler.
  The annotation used to persist the issued credential identifier is now `authentication.kubernetes.io/issued-credential-id`. ([#123098](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/123098), [@munnerz](https://github.com/munnerz)) [SIG Auth]

using an extra executable.

### Kubelet Credential Provider Graduates to Beta

Originally released as Alpha in Kubernetes 1.20, the kubelet's support for
[image credential providers](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/kubelet-credential-provider/kubelet-credential-provider/)
has now graduated to Beta.
This allows the kubelet to dynamically retrieve credentials for a container image registry

### External credential providers

feature gate `DisableKubeletCloudCredentialProviders` which allows disabling the in-tree kubelet credential providers.
  
  The feature gate `DisableKubeletCloudCredentialProviders` is currently in Alpha, which means is currently disabled by default. Once this feature gate moves to beta, in-tree credential providers will be disabled by default, and users will need to migrate to use external credential providers. ([#102507](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/102507), [@ostrain](ht...

pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), type Cmsghdr struct, Type int32
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), type Credential struct
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), type Credential struct, Gid uint32
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), type Credential struct, Groups []uint32
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), type Credential struct, NoSetGroups bool
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), type Credential struct, Uid uint32
pkg syscall (darwin-arm64), type Dirent struct

- Kubelet: The `--azure-container-registry-config` flag has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release, please use `--image-credential-provider-config` and `--image-credential-provider-bin-dir` to setup acr credential provider instead. ([#118596](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/118596), [@SataQiu](https://github.com/SataQiu)) [SIG Node]

  - `alpha` support (guarded by the `ServiceAccountTokenJTI` feature gate) for adding a `jti` (JWT ID) claim to service account tokens it issues, adding an `authentication.kubernetes.io/credential-id` audit annotation in audit logs when the tokens are issued, and `authentication.kubernetes.io/credential-id` entry in the extra user info when the token is used to authenticate.

- Kubelet external Credential Provider feature is moved to GA. Credential Provider Plugin and Credential Provider Config APIs updated from `v1beta1` to `v1` with no API changes. ([#111616](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111616), [@ndixita](https://github.com/ndixita))

- Promoted pod resource `limit/request` metrics to stable. ([#115454](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/115454), [@dgrisonnet](https://github.com/dgrisonnet))
- Removed AWS kubelet credential provider. Please use the external kubelet credential provider binary named `ecr-credential-provider` instead. ([#116329](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/116329), [@dims](https://github.com/dims)) [SIG Node, Storage and Testing]

### Feature

- A client-go metric, rest_client_exec_plugin_call_total, has been added to track total calls to client-go credential plugins. ([#98892](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/98892), [@ankeesler](https://github.com/ankeesler)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, Cluster Lifecycle and Instrumentation]