- 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

- The AWS credential provider can now obtain ECR credentials even without the AWS cloud provider or being on an EC2 instance. Additionally, AWS credential provider caching has been improved to honor the ECR credential timeout. ([#75587](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75587), [@tiffanyfay](https://github.com/tiffanyfay))

pkg syscall (netbsd-arm64-cgo), type Credential struct
pkg syscall (netbsd-arm64-cgo), type Credential struct, Gid uint32
pkg syscall (netbsd-arm64-cgo), type Credential struct, Groups []uint32
pkg syscall (netbsd-arm64-cgo), type Credential struct, NoSetGroups bool
pkg syscall (netbsd-arm64-cgo), type Credential struct, Uid uint32
pkg syscall (netbsd-arm64-cgo), type Dirent struct

### 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

### External credential provider for client-go

The client-go credential plugins can now be passed in the current cluster information via the `KUBERNETES_EXEC_INFO` environment variable. Learn more about this on [client-go credential plugins documentation](https://docs.k8s.io/reference/access-authn-authz/authentication/#client-go-credential-plugins/).

- 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]

/reference/access-authn-authz/rbac/#aggregated-clusterroles), introduced in 1.9, graduated to stable status with no changes in 1.11, and [client-go credential plugins](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/authentication/#client-go-credential-plugins)  graduated to beta status, while also adding support for obtaining TLS credentials from an external plugin.

Kubernetes 1.11 also makes it easier to see what's happening, as audit events can now be annotated with information...