### API Change

### SIG Auth

### External credential providers

### SIG Auth

Work this cycle focused on graduating existing functions, and on making security functions more understandable for users.

    - [CLI Improvements](#cli-improvements)
  - [API Changes](#api-changes)
  - [Other notable changes](#other-notable-changes-1)
    - [API Machinery](#api-machinery)
    - [Apps](#apps)
    - [Auth](#auth)
    - [CLI](#cli)
    - [Cloud Provider](#cloud-provider)
    - [Cluster Lifecycle](#cluster-lifecycle-1)
    - [Instrumentation](#instrumentation)
    - [Network](#network-1)
    - [Node](#node)

* delegated authn/z: optionally opt-out of mandatory authn/authz kubeconfig ([#67545](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67545), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

- The following features are unconditionally enabled and the corresponding `--feature-gates` flags have been removed: `PodPriority`,...

### API Change

- Add auth API to get self subject attributes (new selfsubjectreviews API is added). 
  The corresponding command for kubctl is provided - `kubectl auth whoami`. ([#111333](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/111333), [@nabokihms](https://github.com/nabokihms)) [SIG API Machinery, Auth, CLI and Testing]

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/).

### CronJob controller v2 is available through feature gate

**Note**: This only impacts the cluster if the ServiceAccount admission plugin is used (most cluster should have this on by default as recommended in https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/admission-controllers/#serviceaccount), the `kubernetes.io/enforce-mountable-secrets` annotation is used by a service account (this annotation is not added by default), and Pods are using ephemeral containers.